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1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

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

   Bottke, Vokrouhlický, Minton et al. · Nature · 2012

   The paper reports that the Late Heavy Bombardment lasted longer than assumed, driven mostly by impactors from the E belt, an extinct part of the asteroid belt, and that its rates match spherule and lunar crater constraints.

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   1. UncheckedScaling from observed Hungaria asteroids, the authors estimate E-belt projectiles made about ten lunar basins between 3.7 and 4.1 billion years ago.“Scaling from the observed Hungaria asteroids, we find that E-belt projectiles made about ten lunar basins between 3.7 and 4.1 Gyr ago.”