End of planet formation marked by giant impacts by Dr. Emily Baldwin, Astronomy Now Online, December 10, 2010. http://www.astronomynow.com/news/n1012/10impact/
Cataclysmic Collisions Brought Gold to Earth, Dec. 9, 2010 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/12/101209-asteroid-collisions-earth-gold-science-space/ http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20025262-501465.html http://sify.com/news/study-says-alien-bombardment-brought-gold-to-earth-news-international-kmknawcebdj.html Giant asteroids could have delivered bling to early Earth Nature.com, December 9, 2010 http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2010/12/giant_asteroids_could_have_del.html New Insights Into Formation of Earth, the Moon, and Mars ScienceDaily, December 10, 2010 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101209141130.htm The paper is: Bottke, W. F., R. J. Walker, J. M. D. Day, D. Nesvorny, and L. E. Tanton, 2010, Stochastic Late Accretion to Earth, the Moon, and Mars. Science. vol. 330, no. 6010, pp. 1527-1530. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6010/1527 A related article is: Origin of Terrestrial Planets and-the Earth-Moon System http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/wisdom/extrasolar/Canup.pdf Yours, Paul H. ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

