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Origin of the cataclysmic Late Heavy Bombardment period of the terrestrial planets

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  • R. Gomes

    (Ladeira do Pedro Antonio
    Observatoire de la Côte d' Azur, CNRS)

  • H. F. Levison

    (Observatoire de la Côte d' Azur, CNRS
    Southwest Research Institute)

  • K. Tsiganis

    (Observatoire de la Côte d' Azur, CNRS)

  • A. Morbidelli

    (Observatoire de la Côte d' Azur, CNRS)

Abstract

Solar System giants A collection of three papers in this issue, tackling seemingly unrelated planetary phenomena, marks a notable unification of Solar System dynamics. The three problems covered are the hard-to-explain orbits of giant planets, the evolution of the orbits of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, and the cause of the ‘Late Heavy Bombardment’ that peppered the Moon with meteors, comets and asteroids some 700 million years after the planets were formed. Key to all these events, on this new model, was a rapid migration of the giant planets (Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus) after a long period of stability within the Solar System.

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  • R. Gomes & H. F. Levison & K. Tsiganis & A. Morbidelli, 2005. "Origin of the cataclysmic Late Heavy Bombardment period of the terrestrial planets," Nature, Nature, vol. 435(7041), pages 466-469, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:435:y:2005:i:7041:d:10.1038_nature03676
    DOI: 10.1038/nature03676
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