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Overabundances in highly siderophile elements (HSEs) of Earths mantle can be explained by conveyance from a singular, immense (3000 km in a diameter) Late Veneer impactor of chondritic composition, subsequent to lunar formation and terrestrial core-closure. Such rocky objects of approximately lunar mass (about 0.01 M_E) ought to be differentiated, such that nearly all of their HSE payload is sequestered into iron cores. Here, we analyze the mechanical and chemical fate of the core of such a Late Veneer impactor, and trace how its HSEs are suspended - and thus pollute - the mantle. For the statistically most-likely oblique collision (about 45degree), the impactors core elongates and thereafter disintegrates into a metallic hail of small particles (about 10 m). Some strike the orbiting Moon as sesquinary impactors, but most re-accrete to Earth as secondaries with further fragmentation. We show that a single oblique impactor provides an adequate amount of HSEs to the primordial terrestrial silicate reservoirs via oxidation of (<m-sized) metal particles with a hydrous, pre-impact, early Hadean Earth.
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