From Dust to Terrestrial Planets

From Dust to Terrestrial Planets — Introduction; Timescales for the Formation of Terrestrial Planets.- Disk Formation, Stability, and Evolution.- Triggering Protostellar Collapse, Injection, and Disk Formation.- Protostellar Disk Formation and Early Evolution.- Solar Nebula Magnetohydrodynamics.- Observational Constraints on Transport (and Mixing) in Pre-main Sequence Disks.- Beta Pictoris and Other Solar Systems.- Temperature and Pressure Gradients in the Solar Nebula.- Formation of Compounds and First Solids.- The Beginning: Swift and Violent.- Short-lived Radionuclides in Meteorites: Constraints on Nebular Timescales for the Production of Solids.- The Extinct Radionuclide Timescale of the Early Solar System.- Short-lived Radioactivities and the Birth of the Sun.- Protostellar Winds and Chondritic Meteorites.- Kinetics of Gas-grain Reactions in the Solar Nebula.- The Solar System D/H Ratio: Observations and Theories.- On the 53Mn Heterogeneity in the Early Solar Nebula.- Are There Chemical Gradients in the Inner Solar System?.- Formation of Planetesimals And Planetary Embryos.- Laboratory Experiments on Preplanetary Dust Aggregation.- Low Velocity Collisions and the Growth of Planetesimals.- Formation of Planetesimals and Accretion of the Terrestrial Planets.- Planetary Accumulation with a Continuous Supply of Planetesimals.- Formation And Evolution Of Planets.- Disks, Extrasolar Planets, and Migration.- An Oxygen Isotope Mixing Model for the Accretion and Composition of Rocky Planets.- Hf-W Chronometry and Inner Solar System Accretion Rates.- On the Isotopic Composition of Primordial Xenon in Terrestrial Planet Atmospheres.- Minor Bodies: Spectral Gradients and Relationships with Meteorites.- Epilogue.- List of Acronyms.- Author Index.- List of Participants.