Could the Lunar "Late Heavy Bombardment" Have Been Triggered by the Formation of Uranus and Neptune?

Icarus

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 286-306

  Levison, Harold F ^a   Dones, Luke ^a   Chapman, Clark R ^a   Stern, S Alan ^a   Duncan, Martin J ^b   Zahnle, Kevin ^c  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1006/icar.2001.6608     Document Type: Article

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