Note on the Number and Origin of Apollo Asteroids

Details Note on the Number and Origin of Apollo Asteroids Note on the Number and Origin of Apollo Asteroids

Sep 1973

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1973moon....8..340w&link_type=abstract

The Moon, Volume 8, Issue 3, pp.340-345

Mathematics

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Fifteen Apollo, or Earth-crossing, asteroids are now recognized, and their orbital elements tabulated here. None has been accidentally rediscovered, a circumstance that leads to the 50% probability that the total number equals or does not exceed 100 to absolute magnitude 18, or above a diameter of roughly 1 km. Physical observations, orbital characteristics, and associated meteor streams provide clues as to whether the Apollo asteroids are truly minor planets or moribund cometary nuclei. A definitive answer as to the origin of the Apollo asteroids is yet to be found, but a short discussion of the status of the problem is presented.

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