A Near-Earth Asteroid Population Estimate from the LINEAR Survey
@article{Stuart2001ANA, title={A Near-Earth Asteroid Population Estimate from the LINEAR Survey}, author={J. Stuart}, journal={Science}, year={2001}, volume={294}, pages={1691 - 1693} }
I estimate the size and shape of the near-Earth asteroid (NEA) population using survey data from the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) project, covering 375,000 square degrees of sky and including more than 1300 NEA detections. A simulation of detection probabilities for different values of orbital parameters and sizes combined with the detection statistics in a Bayesian framework provides a correction for observational bias and yields the NEA population distribution as a function… CONTINUE READING
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