How to detect another 10 trillion small Main Belt asteroids

@article{Bidstrup2008HowTD,
  title={How to detect another 10 trillion small Main Belt asteroids},
  author={Philip R. Bidstrup and Anja C. Andersen and Henning Haack and Rene Michelsen},
  journal={Physica Scripta},
  year={2008},
  volume={2008},
  pages={014027},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:121429332}
}
Estimates of the size distribution of Main Belt asteroids suggest that there is an undetected population of approximately 10 trillion objects in the meter-to kilometer-range. These small objects are highly diverse impact generated fragments of ancient asteroids. This vast and so far unexplored resource of small bodies holds a rich variety of information on the origin and evolution of our Solar System. Current Earth-based telescopes have, with a few exceptions, not been able to detect the faint… 
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