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An Archaean heavy bombardment from a destabilized extension of the asteroid belt

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  • William F. Bottke

    (Southwest Research Institute and NASA Lunar Science Institute, 1050 Walnut Street, Suite 300, Boulder, Colorado 80302, USA)

  • David Vokrouhlický

    (Southwest Research Institute and NASA Lunar Science Institute, 1050 Walnut Street, Suite 300, Boulder, Colorado 80302, USA
    Institute of Astronomy, Charles University, V. Holešovičkách 2, 18000 Prague 8, Czech Republic)

  • David Minton

    (Southwest Research Institute and NASA Lunar Science Institute, 1050 Walnut Street, Suite 300, Boulder, Colorado 80302, USA
    Purdue University, 550 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA)

  • David Nesvorný

    (Southwest Research Institute and NASA Lunar Science Institute, 1050 Walnut Street, Suite 300, Boulder, Colorado 80302, USA)

  • Alessandro Morbidelli

    (Southwest Research Institute and NASA Lunar Science Institute, 1050 Walnut Street, Suite 300, Boulder, Colorado 80302, USA
    Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Laboratoire Cassiopée, BP 4229, 06304 Nice Cedex 4, France)

  • Ramon Brasser

    (Southwest Research Institute and NASA Lunar Science Institute, 1050 Walnut Street, Suite 300, Boulder, Colorado 80302, USA
    Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Laboratoire Cassiopée, BP 4229, 06304 Nice Cedex 4, France
    Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, PO Box 23 141, Taipei 106, Taiwan)

  • Bruce Simonson

    (Oberlin College)

  • Harold F. Levison

    (Southwest Research Institute and NASA Lunar Science Institute, 1050 Walnut Street, Suite 300, Boulder, Colorado 80302, USA)

Abstract

The Late Heavy Bombardment lasted much longer than previously thought, up to 1.7 billion years ago on Earth, with impacts on the Moon and Earth coming mostly from the E-belt-survivor Hungaria asteroids.

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  • William F. Bottke & David Vokrouhlický & David Minton & David Nesvorný & Alessandro Morbidelli & Ramon Brasser & Bruce Simonson & Harold F. Levison, 2012. "An Archaean heavy bombardment from a destabilized extension of the asteroid belt," Nature, Nature, vol. 485(7396), pages 78-81, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:485:y:2012:i:7396:d:10.1038_nature10967
    DOI: 10.1038/nature10967
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