Can planetesimals left over from terrestrial planet formation produce the lunar Late Heavy Bombardment?

Icarus

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 203-223

  Bottke, William F ^a   Levison, Harold F ^a   Nesvorný, David ^a   Dones, Luke ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Collisional physics; dynamics; Impact processes; Origin; Solar System

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547727139     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.02.010     Document Type: Article

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