A Shared Bombardment History

A Shared Bombardment History
March 25, 2013
CreditNASA/GSFC/ASU/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
PIA NumberPIA16841
Language
  • english

Studying meteorites from the asteroid Vesta helps scientists understand the event known as the 'lunar cataclysm,' when a repositioning of the gas giant planets destabilized a portion of the asteroid belt and triggered a solar-system-wide bombardment.