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The Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) may preserve evidence of planet buildingin their orbital and size-distributions. While all populations show steepsize-distributions for large objects, recently relative deficit of NeptunianTrojans and scattering objects with diameters $D<100\,\mathrm{km}$ weredetected. We have investigated this deficit with a 32 square degree survey,detecting 77 TNOs to a limiting $r$-band magnitude of 24.6. Our Plutinos sample(18 objects in 3:2 mean motion resonance with Neptune) also shows a deficit of$D<100\,\mathrm{km}$ objects. We reject a single power-law size-distributionand find that the Plutinos favour a divot. The Plutinos are thus added the listof populations with a deficit of $D<100\,\mathrm{km}$ objects. The fact thatthree independent samples of three different populations show this trendsuggests that it is a real feature, possibly shared by all hot TNO populationsas a remnant of "born big" planetesimal formation processes. We surmise theexistence of $9000\pm3000$ Plutinos with $H_r\leq8.66$ and$37000^{+12000}_{-10000}$ Plutinos with $H_r\leq10.0$. Our survey alsodiscovered one temporary Uranian Trojan, one temporary Neptunian Trojans andone stable Neptunian Trojan, from which we derive populations of$110^{+500}_{-100}$, $210^{+900}_{-200}$ and $150^{+600}_{-140}$ ,respectively, with $H_r\leq10.0$. The Neptunian Trojans are thus less numerousthan the main belt asteroids, which has over 700 asteroids with $H_r\leq10.0$.With such numbers, the temporary Neptunian Trojans cannot be previously stableTrojans that happen to be escaping the resonance now; they must be capturedfrom another reservoir. With three 3:1 and one 4:1 resonators, we add to thegrowing evidence that the high-order resonances are more populated thanexpected.

A carefully characterised and tracked Trans-Neptunian survey, the size-distribution of the Plutinos and the number of Neptunian Trojans