Could the Lunar “Late Heavy Bombardment” Have Been Triggered by the Formation of Uranus and Neptune?

By Harold Levison, L. Dones, Clark R. Chapman, S. Stern, M. Duncan, K. Zahnle. 2001

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The primordial excitation and clearing of the asteroid belt—Revisited (2006, background): “…the asteroids in the belt have orbits with e ∼ i ∼ 0 at the time of the 2:1 resonance crossing , the sweeping secular resonances driven by the subsequent planetary migration can only increase the asteroids' e and i, so that essentially all bodies are driven out of the belt (Levison et al., 2001).”
Emergence of a Habitable Planet (2007, methodology): “If carbonates in oceanic crust subducted as quickly as they formed, Earth could have been habitable as early as 10–20 Myrs after the Moon-forming impact.”
Cataclysmic bombardment throughout the inner solar system 3.9–4.0 Ga (2002, background): “…resonance to sweep through the belt [Hartmann et al., 2000], asteroids and/or comets scattered by the formation and migration of Uranus and Neptune [Levison et al., 2001], comets scattered directly from the Uranus-Neptune region (most of which populated the Oort Cloud [e.g., Hartmann et al.,…”
Planetary migration in a planetesimal disk: why did Neptune stop at 30 AU? (2004, background): “Levison et al. (2001)proposed that a late formation or a late outward gration of Uranus and Neptune triggered the so-called Heavy Bombardment of the Moon.”
Origins of volatile elements (H, C, N, noble gases) on Earth and Mars in light of recent results from the ROSETTA cometary mission (2016, methodology): “From a modeling approach, Levison et al. (2001) proposed a mass contribution of 8 × 1022 g. Gomes et al. (2005) estimated a TLHB of 4 × 1023 g, about half of which being cometary.”
COMETARY ORIGIN OF THE ZODIACAL CLOUD AND CARBONACEOUS MICROMETEORITES. IMPLICATIONS FOR HOT DEBRIS DISKS (2009, background): “, 2007) because the scattered inhabitants of the planetesimal disk, and main belt asteroids destabilized by planetary migration, would provide prodigious numbers of impactors in the inner solar system (Levison et al., 2001; Gomes et al., 2005).”
EVIDENCE FROM THE ASTEROID BELT FOR A VIOLENT PAST EVOLUTION OF JUPITER's ORBIT (2010, background): “Thus, the Solar System acquired its current global structure at the LHB time and did not evolve substantially since then. ha l-0 05 15 99 5, v er si on 1 - 8 Se p 20 10”
Water and astrobiology (2007, background): “Other possible problems with a cometary source for the bulk of Earth’s water are that they may introduce too much of the noble gases and their collision probabilities are too low, one in a million for a typical comet during its dynamical lifetime (Levison et al., 2001).”
The early martian evolution—Constraints from basin formation ages (2008, unknown): “The idea of a marker-horizon as first suggested by Wetherill (1975) as a dynamical explana- tion and elaborated by, e.g., Morbidelli et al. (2001), Levison et al. (2001), Chambers and Lissauer (2002), and Gomes et al. (2005) is supported by this work.”
Outgassing History and Escape of the Martian Atmosphere and Water Inventory (2015, background): “Thus, the H2O which could have been brought to Mars by impacts (Levison et al. 2001) especially during the LHB-period, where the solar EUV flux and related thermal escape processes were much lower compared to their early values, could also be an important contribution to the planets present water…”
STATISTICAL STUDY OF THE EARLY SOLAR SYSTEM'S INSTABILITY WITH FOUR, FIVE, AND SIX GIANT PLANETS (2012, methodology): “Inspired by this work, Levison et al. (2001) suggested that the instability and subsequent dispersal of the planetesimal disk, if appropriately delayed (or due to the late formation of Uranus and Neptune; Wetherill 1975), could explain the Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB) of the Moon.”
Dynamical erosion of the asteroid belt and implications for large impacts in the inner Solar System (2009, background): “As Jupiter and Saturn migrated, the locations of mean motion and secular resonances swept across the asteroid belt, exciting asteroids into terrestrial planet-crossing orbits, thereby greatly depleting the asteroid belt population and perhaps also causing a late heavy bombardment in the inner solar ”
The fossilized size distribution of the main asteroid belt (2003, background): “…plausible solution to this enigma is that same dynamical instability that produced the Late He Bombardment∼3.9 Gyr ago (e.g.,Hartmann et al., 2000 Levison et al., 2001) also scrambled our ability to compu useful proper(a, e, i) elements beyond this epoch; in effe this would have produced a…”