E-belt asteroids

[1] As this population of the E-belt asteroids leaked from this reservoir they would produce a long-lived tail of impacts after the traditional end of the late heavy bombardment at 3.7 billion years ago.

[1] Evidence for the Moon does not support comets from the outer planetesimal belt as the source of the basin-forming lunar impacts.

[4] Samples recovered from the Moon containing impact melts have a range of ages rather than the sharp spike expected if comets produced the LHB.

[8] Studies of the dynamics of the main asteroid belt during giant planet migration have significantly limited the number of impactors originating from this region.

[10] The decay of the population of E-belt asteroids captured onto Hungaria like orbits produces a long-lived tail of impacts which continues past the LHB.

[8] The result was consistent with calculations based on the recent estimates of the orbital density of the main asteroid belt before the planetary migration.