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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 881, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab2c03
关键词
planets and satellites: dynamical evolution and stability; meteorites, meteors, meteoroids; minor planets, asteroids: general
资金
- Collaborative for Research in Origins (CRiO) - John Templeton Foundation
- NASA Cosmochemistry program [NNX14AG31G]
- JSPS Kakenhi [17KK0089]
- NASA Solar System Workings Program [80NSSC17K0732]
- Research Council of Norway via the Centre of Excellence grant [CEED 223272]
Soon after their formation, the terrestrial planets experienced intense impact bombardment by comets, leftover planetesimals from primary accretion, and asteroids. This temporal interval in solar system evolution, termed late accretion, thermally and chemically modified solid planetary surfaces and may have impeded life's emergence on the Hadean (pre-3850 Ma) Earth. The sources and tempo of bombardment, however, remain obscure. Here we present a timeline that relates variably retentive radiometric ages documented from asteroidal meteorites to new dynamical models that invoke an early episode of planetesimal-driven giant planet migration after the dispersal of the protoplanetary disk. Reconciliation of geochronological data with dynamical models shows that such giant planet migration should lead to an intense similar to 30 Myr influx of comets to the entire solar system manifested in radiometric age data. The absence of wholesale crustal reset ages after similar to 4450 Ma for the most resilient chronometers from Earth, Moon, Mars, 4 Vesta, and various meteorite parent bodies confines the onset of giant planet migration to ca. 4480 Ma. Waning impacts continue to strike the inner planets through a protracted monotonic decline in impactor flux, in agreement with predictions from crater chronology. New global 3D thermal analytical bombardment models derived from our revised impact mass-production functions show also that persistent niches for prebiotic chemistry leading to the emergence of life on the early Hadean Earth could endure late accretion since at least about 4400 million years ago.
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