The near-Earth asteroid population from two decades of observations

@article{Tricarico2017TheNA,
  title={The near-Earth asteroid population from two decades of observations},
  author={P. Tricarico},
  journal={Icarus},
  year={2017},
  volume={284},
  pages={416-423}
}
Abstract Determining the size and orbital distribution of the population of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) is the focus of intense research, with the most recent models converging to a population of approximately 1000 NEAs larger than 1 km and up to approximately 109 NEAs with absolute magnitude H 
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