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Second Order: The Great Craters
Late Heavy Bombardment of the solar system
- Solar system evolution, starting ~4.6 Ga
- Accretion of dust into clumps and planetesimals
- Gravitational interactions re-arranged the outer gas giants
- It also lobbed smaller objects into the inner solar system
- This resulted in the Late Heavy Bombardment ~4.0 Ga