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The Origin of Planetary Impactors in the Inner Solar System
October 13, 2005 / Posted by: Shige Abe
Scientists from NAI’s University of Arizona and University of Washington Lead Teams recently published a paper in Science concerning this history of the Solar System. Their paper looks at differences in the size distrubutions of asteroid populations during and after the heavy bombardment period ~ 3.8 billion years ago.
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