Can planetesimals left over from terrestrial planet formation produce the lunar Late Heavy Bombardment?

2007/03/13 by William F. Bottke, W. F. Bottke, Harold F. Levison +3 · 10 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Astro and Planetary Science #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Planetary Science and Exploration

paper · doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2007.02.010

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• Origin of the cataclysmic Late Heavy Bombardment period of the terrestrial planets
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• The fossilized size distribution of the main asteroid belt
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• The Size Distribution of Trans-Neptunian Bodies
• Un nuovo denario di Giulia Domna conservato nel Museo Civico di Canneto sull¿Oglio(Mantova)

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• Long-term stability of horseshoe orbits
• Chronology and sources of lunar impact bombardment
• High-velocity collisions from the lunar cataclysm recorded in asteroidal meteorites
• The onset of the lunar cataclysm as recorded in its ancient crater populations
• Constraints on the source of lunar cataclysm impactors
• The terrestrial Planet V hypothesis as the mechanism for the origin of the late heavy bombardment
• Constructing the secular architecture of the solar system II: the terrestrial planets
• The fate of primordial lunar Trojans
• Modeling the Historical Flux of Planetary Impactors
• Late Heavy Bombardment [wikipedia]