The flux of small near-Earth objects colliding with the Earth

@article{Brown2002TheFO,  title={The flux of small near-Earth objects colliding with the Earth},  author={Peter Brown and Peter G. Brown and Richard E. Spalding and Douglas Orson Revelle and Edward Tagliaferri and Simon P. Worden},  journal={Nature},  year={2002},  volume={420},  pages={294-296},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:4380864}}
Satellite records of bolide detonations in the atmosphere over the past 8.5 years are reported and it is found that the flux of objects in the 1–10-m size range has the same power-law distribution as bodies with diameters >50 m.

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