Inference on the Nature and the Mass of Earth's Late Veneer from Noble Metals and Gases

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2001-09-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0109309v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, submitted to JGR

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Noble metals and gases are very sensitive to the late accretion to the Earth of asteroids and comets. We present mass balance arguments based on these elements that indicate that 0.7E22-2.7E22 kg of extraterrestrial bodies struck the Earth after core formation and that comets comprised less than 1E-5 by mass of the impacting population. These results imply that the dynamics of asteroids and comets changed drastically with time and that biogenic elements and prebiotic molecules were not delivered to the Earth by comets but rather by carbonaceous asteroids.

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