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
and 3:1 resonances, the intermediate source Mars-crossing (IMC) population (namely,
Mars-crossers below the ), the Outer Main Belt (OB) and the Jupiter-family comets.
(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, (Myr-1) gives the number of bodies injected into the NEA region
per million years while
(Myr) is the mean dynamical lifetime spent in the NEA region.