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The population of bright NEAs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2015

G. B. Valsecchi
Affiliation:
IAPS-INAF, Roma, Italy IFAC-CNR, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
G. F. Gronchi
Affiliation:
University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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Our understanding of the orbital distribution of NEAs is influenced by discovery selection effects, so that it is likely that the orbital distribution of known NEAs differs from the true distribution. In fact, our ability to reconstruct the true distribution critically depends on the removal of discovery biases from the known population.

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