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5. Populations of Planet-Crossing Asteroids and the Relation of Apollo Objects to Main-Belt Asteroids and Comets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

E. M. Shoemaker  and
E. F. Helin

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From discoveries made in several independent surveys of the sky, the number of Apollo asteroids to absolute visual magnitude 18 is estimated to be of the order of 103; the ratio of Mars-crossing asteroids to Apcllos is estimated to lie between 10 and 60. The loss of Apollos to magnitude 18 over the last 3 billion years, by collision with the planets and ejection from the solar system, is estimated to have been several times 104 objects. Mars-crossing asteroids appear to be an inadequate source for all of these objects. Most Apollos probably are dead short-period comets.

Type
Part V. Orbital Evolution and Fragmentation of Asteroids
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 39: Comets, Asteroids, Meteorites: Interrelations, Evolution and Origins , December 1977 , pp. 297 - 300
Copyright
Copyright © A.H. Delsemme 1977

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