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1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   The timeline of the lunar bombardment: Revisited

   Morbidelli, A, Laurenz et al. · Icarus · 2018

   The paper revisits whether a late impact surge or a declining accretion tail best fits the lunar crater record and mantle HSE levels, and finds the answer depends on when HSEs began accumulating.

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   1. UncheckedIf lunar HSEs record all material the Moon has accreted since forming, only a surge in impacts about 3.9 billion years ago fits the data.“Under the traditional assumption that the HSEs track the total amount of material accreted by the Moon since its formation, we conclude that only the cataclysm scenario can explain the data.”
   2. Unchecked“However we show that HSEs could have been sequestered from the lunar mantle due to iron sulfide exsolution during magma ocean crystallization, followed by mantle overturn.”