A failed search for concordancy across multiple isotopic systems in lunar impactites: Implications for testing the Late Heavy Bombardment hypothesisOPEN ACCESS
T. Mark Harrison, Bidong Zhang, Andrew F. Parisi, Elizabeth A. Bell Earth and Planetary Science LettersAvailable online 2 September 2024, 118943 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights “Investigations of Apollo-returned samples radically altered our understanding…
Accessory mineral microstructure and chronology reveals no evidence for late heavy bombardment on the asteroid 4-VestaOPEN ACCESS
L.F. White, D.E. Moser, J.R. Darling, B.G. Rider-Stokes, B. Hyde, K.T. Tait, K. Chamberlain, A.K. Schmitt, J. Dunlop, M. Anand Earth and Planetary Science LettersVolume 636, 15 June 2024, 118694 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights “A…
Giant impacts and the origin and evolution of continents
Tim E. Johnson, Christopher L. Kirkland, Yongjun Lu, R. Hugh Smithies, Michael Brown & Michael I. H. Hartnady Nature, Volume 608, pages 330–335 (2022)Published: 10 August 2022 LINK “Earth is the only planet known to…
Evidence against a Late Heavy Bombardment event on VestaOPEN ACCESS
J.A. Cartwright, K.V. Hodges, M.Wadhwa Earth and Planetary Science LettersVolume 590, 15 July 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights • Analysis of two howardite meteorites using targeted in-situ 40Ar/39Ar techniques.• Aim to determine the…
Meteorites as Food Source on Early Earth: Growth, Selection, and Inhibition of a Microbial Community on a Carbonaceous Chondrite
Annemiek C. Waajen, R. Prescott, and Charles S. Cockell AstrobiologyPublished Online: 18 March 2022 LINK “Meteoritic material accumulated on the surface of the anoxic early Earth during the Late Heavy Bombardment around 4.0 Gya and…
Late accretionary history of Earth and Moon preserved in lunar impactitesOPEN ACCESS
Emily A. Worsham and Thorsten Kleine Science Advances • 29 Oct 2021 • Vol 7, Issue 44 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Supplementary materials (PDF) “Late accretion describes the final addition of Earth’s mass following…
Change in the Earth–Moon impactor population at about 3.5 billion years ago
Minggang Xie, Zhiyong Xiao, Luyuan Xu, Wenzhe Fa & Aoao Xu Nature Astronomy (2020), Published: 09 November 2020 LINK “The bombardment of impactors (leftover planetesimals, asteroids and comets) created numerous impact craters on the Moon….
Evidence for early asteroidal collisions prior to 4.15 Ga from basaltic eucrite phosphate U–Pb chronologyOPEN ACCESS
Mizuho Koike, Yuji Sano, Naoto Takahata, Tsuyoshi Iizuka, Haruka Ono, Takashi Mikouchi Earth and Planetary Science LettersIn Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 26 August 2020 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights • NanoSIMS U-Pb dating of phosphates…
Onset of Giant Planet Migration before 4480 Million Years Ago
Stephen J. Mojzsis, Ramon Brasser, Nigel M. Kelly, Oleg Abramov, and Stephanie C. Werner The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 881, Number 1 LINK “Soon after their formation, the terrestrial planets experienced intense impact bombardment by comets,…
Ab initio molecular dynamics study of prebiotic production processes of organic compounds at meteorite impacts on ocean
Kohei Shimamura, Fuyuki Shimojo, Aiichiro Nakano, Shigenori Tanaka Journal of Computational Chemistry doi.org/10.1002/jcc.25606 First published: 11 October 2018 LINK “Recent experiments concerning prebiotic materials syntheses suggest that the iron‐bearing meteorite impacts on ocean during Late…
Modeling the Historical Flux of Planetary ImpactorsOPEN ACCESS
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…
Illusory Late Heavy Bombardments
Patrick Boehnke and T. Mark Harrison PNAS 2016 published ahead of print September 12, 2016 doi:10.1073/pnas.1611535113 LINK “The vast majority of evidence marshaled for the Late Heavy Bombardment comes from 40Ar/39Ar age spectra of Apollo…
A new ∼3.46 Ga asteroid impact ejecta unit at Marble Bar, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia: A petrological, microprobe and laser ablation ICPMS study
Andrew Glikson, Arthur Hickman, Noreen J. Evans, Christopher L. Kirkland, Jung-Woo Park, Robert Rapp, Sandra Romano Precambrian Research Volume 279, July 2016, Pages 103–122 LINK “The Archean rock record contains seventeen asteroid impact ejecta units…
Siderophile elements in brecciated HED meteorites and the nature of projectile materials in HED meteorites
N. Shirai, C. Okamoto, A. Yamaguchi, M. Ebihara Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 437 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.12.024 Available online 18 January 2016 LINK “Petrological, mineralogical and geochemical studies were performed on five brecciated HED meteorites (ALH…
A protracted timeline for lunar bombardment from mineral chemistry, Ti thermometry and U–Pb geochronology of Apollo 14 melt breccia zircons
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology March 2015, 169:30 LINK
The relative timing of Lunar Magma Ocean solidification and the Late Heavy Bombardment inferred from highly degraded impact basin structures
Shunichi Kamata, Seiji Sugita, Yutaka Abe, Yoshiaki Ishihara, Yuji Harada, Tomokatsu Morota, Noriyuki Namiki, Takahiro Iwata, Hideo Hanada, Hiroshi Araki, Koji Matsumoto, Eiichi Tajika, Kiyoshi Kuramoto, Francis Nimmo Icarus doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2014.12.025 available online 2 January 2015…
High-energy chemistry of formamide: A unified mechanism of nucleobase formation
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
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…
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