The Population of Near-Earth Asteroids in Coorbital Motion with the Earth

@article{Morais2002ThePO,
  title={The Population of Near-Earth Asteroids in Coorbital Motion with the Earth},
  author={Maria Helena Moreira Morais and Alessandro Morbidelli},
  journal={Icarus},
  year={2002},
  volume={160},
  pages={1-9}
}
Abstract We obtain the size and orbital distributions of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) that are expected to be in the 1 : 1 mean motion resonance with the Earth in a steady state scenario. We predict that the number of such objects with absolute magnitudes H H 
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