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Late Heavy Bombardment

Late Heavy Bombardment proper noun: 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.

Proper noun

Late Heavy Bombardment

  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.

Forms of Late Heavy Bombardment

alternative formLHB

Questions about Late Heavy Bombardment

What does Late Heavy Bombardment mean?
Late Heavy Bombardment means 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.
What part of speech is Late Heavy Bombardment?
Late Heavy Bombardment is a proper noun.

Words near Late Heavy Bombardment in the dictionary

  1. Late Egyptian
  2. late fee
  3. late fees
  4. Late Greek
  5. late harvest
  6. Late Heavy Bombardment
  7. late in the day
  8. late in the game
  9. late innings
  10. late lamented
  11. late lamenteds

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