Late Accretion onto Terrestrial Planets (TRR 170) is a new Transregional Collaborative Research Center located in Berlin and Münster (Germany). The center is funded by the German Research Foundation and comprises research groups at Freie Universität Berlin (FUB), Technische Universität Berlin (TUB), Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster (WWU), Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN) and Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Berlin (DLR). The scope of TRR 170 is the interdisciplinary study of the late growth history of the terrestrial planets from the last giant collisions between planetary embryos to the terminal phase of late bombardment, approximately 3.8 billion years ago. The first funding phase (2016-2019) has a strong focus on the Earth-Moon system. The program also aims to provide a broad, interdisciplinary planetary science education to doctoral students who participate in TRR 170.

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