Table 2: Some of the most important dynamical results derived by Bottke et al. (2002) for bodies coming from the different NEA source regions. The sources studied by these authors were the $\nu _{6}$ and 3:1 resonances, the intermediate source Mars-crossing (IMC) population (namely, Mars-crossers below the $\nu _{6}$), the Outer Main Belt (OB) and the Jupiter-family comets. $N_{\rm NEA}$(H< 18) represents the steady-state number of NEAs with an H magnitude smaller than 18, which is roughly 1 km in size. On the other hand, $\tau $ (Myr-1) gives the number of bodies injected into the NEA region per million years while $T_{\rm NEA}$ (Myr) is the mean dynamical lifetime spent in the NEA region.
  $\nu _{6}$ IMC 3:1 OB JFC Total
$N_{\rm NEA}$(H< 18) 360 $\pm$ 90 240 $\pm$ 40 220 $\pm$ 90 79 $\pm$ 12 61 $\pm$ 43 960 $\pm$ 120
$\tau $ (Myr-1) 55 $\pm$ 18 65 $\pm$ 15 100 $\pm$ 50 570 $\pm$ 120 - 790 $\pm$ 200
$T_{\rm NEA}$ (Myr) 6.54 3.75 2.16 0.14 - -

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