  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.
