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EL meteorites do date the giant planet instability

Authors :
Avdellidou, Chrysa
Delbo, Marco
Nesvorny, David
Walsh, Kevin J.
Morbidelli, Alessandro
Publication Year :
2024

Abstract

In our recent work, we combined dynamical simulations, meteoritic data and thermal models as well as asteroid observations to argue that the current parent body of the EL meteorites was implanted into the asteroid belt not earlier than 60 Myr after the beginning of the Solar System and that the most likely capture mechanism was the giant planet orbital instability. In the study "The link between Athor and EL meteorites does not constrain the timing of the giant planet instability" that appeared in arXiv, Izidoro and collaborators argue that the implantation of Athor into the asteroid belt does not necessarily require that the giant planet orbital instability occurred at the implantation time. Here we provide further arguments that, in the end, the giant planet instability is still the most likely dynamical process to implant asteroid Athor into the asteroid main belt between 60 and 100 Myr after the beginning of the Solar System.<br />Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure; comment on arXiv:2404.10828

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.2404.19390
Document Type :
Working Paper