SwRI<sup>TM</sup> Researchers Probe the Origin of the Late Heavy Bombardment

SwRI^TM Researchers Probe the Origin of the Late Heavy Bombardment

In a paper published in Icarus (vol. 151, p. 286, June 2001), SwRI scientists Hal Levison, Luke Dones, Clark Chapman, and Alan Stern, along with Martin Duncan of Queens University and Kevin Zahnle of NASA-Ames investigate the role of Uranus and Neptune in the Late Heavy Bombardment. The authors show that current constraints on the LHB are consistent with the hypothesis that the LHB was triggered by the formation of Uranus and Neptune.

The full text of the article is available in various formats at http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~hal/lhb.html

Boulder Daily Camera article on these results.

SwRITM Researchers Probe the Origin of the Late Heavy Bombardment

SwRI^TM Researchers Probe the Origin of the Late Heavy Bombardment