New Findings on Early Bombardment of the Earth and Moon and Their Development

Freie Universität Researchers Contribute to International Study Published in Nature

No 215/2019 from Jul 12, 2019

How did the Earth evolve from a fireball about 4.5 billion years ago to a habitable world? The key to this question lies in the early history of our planet, when the bombardment with cosmic bodies slowly declined. An international team, including scientists from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin, has now succeeded in quantitatively reconstructing the bombardment history of the Earth and Moon. The results of The entry of mass by this bombardment was most likely crucial for the later evolution of the Earth and the formation of an atmosphere and oceans. ...