From Dust to Terrestrial Planets

. Ed(s): Benz, Willy; Kallenbach, R.; Lugmair, Gunter

ISBN 10: 0792364678 / ISBN 13: 9780792364672

Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000

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Proceedings of an ISSI Workshop, 15-19 February 1999, Bern, Switzerland Editor(s): Benz, Willy; Kallenbach, R.; Lugmair, Gunter. Series: Space Sciences Series of ISSI. Num Pages: 433 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PGS; PHVB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1730. . 2000. Reprinted from Space Science Reviews journal, Vol. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: From Dust to Terrestrial Planets
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792364678
• ISBN 13: 9780792364672
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The workshop "From Dust to Terrestrial Planets" was initiated by a working group of planetary scientists invited to ISSI by Johannes Geiss in November 1997. The group split to focus on three topics, one of which was the history of the early solar system, including the formation of the terrestrial planets in the inner solar system. Willy Benz, Gunter Lugmair, and Frank Podosek were invited to convene planetary scientists, astrophysicists, and cosmochemists to synthesize the current knowledge on the origin and evolution of our inner planetary system. The convenors raised the interest of scientists from all over the world in the detailed assessment of the available astronomical, chronological, geochemical and dynamical constraints of the first period of inner solar system evolution. In partic­ ular, this included appraisal of the newest results from astronomical observations by the Hubble Space Telescope, the Infrared Space Observatory, and other space and ground-based facilities of solar-like systems and nebular disks, possibly repre­ senting early stages of the solar accretion disk and planet formation. At the same time, the current models of the origin, evolution, transport, and accretion processes of circum stellar disks were presented. This included the new insights provided by the recent discovery of extrasolar giant planets, which were considered insofar as they are relevant to the overall dynamics of the inner part of the solar system.