Planetary Sciences:

American and Soviet Research/Proceedings from the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Workshop on Planetary Sciences

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Publication Year:1991

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Thomas M. Donahue, Kathleen Kearney Trivers, and David M. Abramson,Editors; National Academy of Sciences
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Front Matter	i-x
1. The Properties and Environment of Primitive Solar Nebulae as Deduced from Observations of Solar-Type Pre-Main Sequence Stars	1-16	(skim)
2. Numerical Two-Dimensional Calculations of the Formation of the Solar Nebula	17-30	(skim)
3. Three-Dimensional Evolution of Early Solar Nebula	31-43	(skim)
4. Formation and Evolution of the Protoplanetary Disk	44-60	(skim)
5. Physical-Chemical Processes in a Protoplanetary Cloud	61-69	(skim)
6. Magnetohydrodynamic Puzzles in the Protoplanetary Nebula	70-81	(skim)
7. Formation of Planetesimals	82-97	(skim)
8. Formation of the Terrestrial Planets from Planetesimals	98-115	(skim)
9. The Rate of Planet Formation and the Solar System's Small Bodies	116-125	(skim)
10. Astrophysical Dust Grains in Stars, the Interstellar Medium, and the Solar System	126-142	(skim)
11. Late Stages of Accumulation and Early Evolution of the Planets	143-162	(skim)
12. Giant Planets and Their Satellites: What are the Relationships Between Their Properties and How They Formed?	163-173	(skim)
13. The Thermal Conditions of Venus	174-190	(skim)
14. Degassing	191-202	(skim)
15. The Role of Impacting Processes in the Chemical Evolution of the Atmosphere of Primordial Earth	203-217	(skim)
16. Lithospheric and Atmospheric Interaction on the Planet Venus	218-233	(skim)
17. Runaway Greenhouse Atmospheres: Applications to Earth and Venus	234-245	(skim)
18. The Oort Cloud	246-258	(skim)
19. The Chaotic Dynamics of Comets and the Problems of the Oort Cloud	259-269	(skim)
20. Progress in Extra-Solar Planet Detection	270-288	(skim)
Appendix I: List of Participants	289-291	(skim)
Appendix II: List of Presentations	292-294	(skim)

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This book contains the proceedings from a workshop on planetary sciences sponsored by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the National Academy of Sciences. The proceedings include papers written by American and Soviet scientists who examine the current theoretical understanding of how the planets were formed and how they evolved to their present state. They assess the type of observations and experiments that are needed to advance understanding of the formation and evolution of the solar system based on the current theoretical framework.

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