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

R. Gomes, H. F. Levison, K. Tsiganis and A. Morbidelli ()
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R. Gomes: Ladeira do Pedro Antonio
H. F. Levison: Observatoire de la Côte d' Azur, CNRS
K. Tsiganis: Observatoire de la Côte d' Azur, CNRS
A. Morbidelli: Observatoire de la Côte d' Azur, CNRS

Nature, 2005, vol. 435, issue 7041, 466-469

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.

Date: 2005
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