English Explanatory Dictionary

Late Heavy Bombardment

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A prolonged event believed to have occurred around the Hadean-Archean boundary, during which an unusually high number of asteroids hit the terrestrial planets and their moons.

Word forms

Late Heavy Bombardment LHB
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