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This chapter describes the most important mechanisms for transporting material from the Asteroid Belt to the Earth’s vicinity and the evolution of bodies on Earth-crossing orbit. Particular care will be paid to evolutionary timescales and statistical aspects of meteoroids dynamics.
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Morbidelli, A., Froeschlé, C. (1998). Origin and Dynamical Transport of Near-Earth Asteroids and Meteorites. In: Benest, D., Froeschlé, C. (eds) Impacts on Earth. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 505. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69703-9_2
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