Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB)

Modeling the Historical Flux of Planetary ImpactorsOPEN ACCESS

30/12/2016 11:25 · by karmaka · in accretion, asteroid, comet, early chronology, impact / impact-structures, Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB), Moon, planets/planetesimals, solar system

David Nesvorny, Fernando Roig, William F. Bottke The Astronomical Journal, in press PDF (OPEN ACCESS) abstract “The impact cratering record of the Moon and the terrestrial planets provides important clues about the formation and evolution…

Origins of volatile elements (H, C, N, noble gases) on Earth and Mars in light of recent results from the ROSETTA cometary mission

09/03/2016 18:26 · by karmaka · in comet, Earth, Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB), Mars, noble gases, Rosetta, space missions

Bernard Marty, Guillaume Avice, Yuji Sano, Kathrin Altwegg, Hans Balsiger, Myrtha Hässig, Alessandro Morbidelli, Olivier Mousis, Martin Rubin Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 441, 1 May 2016, Pages 91–102 Available online 9 March 2016…

High-energy chemistry of formamide: A unified mechanism of nucleobase formation

08/12/2014 20:56 · by karmaka · in impact / impact-structures, Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB)

Martin Ferus, David Nesvorný, Jiří Šponer, Petr Kubelík, Regina Michalčíková, Violetta Shestivská, Judit E. Šponer, Svatopluk Civiš Published online before print December 8, 2014, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1412072111 PNAS December 8, 2014 LINK update (12/12/2014): Science magazine…

New estimates of the production of volatile gases from ablating carbonaceous micrometeoroids at Earth and Mars during an E-belt-type Late Heavy Bombardment

16/09/2014 16:08 · by karmaka · in carbonaceous chondrite, CM, Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB)

New estimates of the production of volatile gases from ablating carbonaceous micrometeoroids at Earth and Mars during an E-belt-type Late Heavy Bombardment Richard W. Court, Mark A. Sephton Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2014.09.010 available…