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The Collisional Evolution of the Primordial Kuiper Belt, Its Destabilized Population, and the Trojan Asteroids
William Bottke, David Vokrouhlicky, Raphael Marshall +6
The tumultuous early era of outer solar system evolution culminated when Neptune migrated across the primordial Kuiper belt (PKB) and triggered a dynamical instability among the gi…
Early Bombardment of the Moon: Connecting the Lunar Crater Record to the Terrestrial Planet Formation
David Nesvorny, Fernando V. Roig, David Vokrouhlicky +4
The lunar crater record features basins. The radiometric dating of Apollo samples indicates that the Imbrium basin formed relatively late -- from the planet formation per…
Formation of Lunar Basins from Impacts of Leftover Planetesimals
David Nesvorny, Fernando V. Roig, David Vokrouhlicky +4
The Moon holds important clues to the early evolution of the Solar System. Some 50 impact basins (crater diameter D>300 km) have been recognized on the lunar surface, implying that…
The Renaissance of Main Belt Asteroid Science
Simone Marchi, Carol A. Raymond, Christopher T. Russell
The NASA Dawn spacecraft took off from Cape Canaveral in September 2007 atop a Delta II rocket starting an ambitious journey to Vesta and Ceres, the two most massive worlds in the…
Spectroscopic study of Ceres' collisional family candidates
Fernando Tinaut-Ruano, Julia de Leon, Eri Tatsumi +3
Context: Despite the observed signs of large impacts on the surface of Ceres, there is no confirmed collisional family associated with this dwarf planet. After a dynamical and phot…
Dark Primitive Asteroids Account for a Large Share of K/Pg-Scale Impacts on the Earth
David Nesvorny, William F. Bottke, Simone Marchi
A dynamical model for large near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) is developed here to understand the occurrence rate and nature of Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) scale impacts on the Earth. We…