Table of Contents

1 Front Matter; 2 1. The Properties and Environment of Primitive Solar Nebulae as Deduced from Observations of Solar-Type Pre-Main Sequence Stars; 3 2. Numerical Two-Dimensional Calculations of the Formation of the Solar Nebula; 4 3. Three-Dimensional Evolution of Early Solar Nebula; 5 4. Formation and Evolution of the Protoplanetary Disk; 6 5. Physical-Chemical Processes in a Protoplanetary Cloud; 7 6. Magnetohydrodynamic Puzzles in the Protoplanetary Nebula; 8 7. Formation of Planetesimals; 9 8. Formation of the Terrestrial Planets from Planetesimals; 10 9. The Rate of Planet Formation and the Solar System's Small Bodies; 11 10. Astrophysical Dust Grains in Stars, the Interstellar Medium, and the Solar System; 12 11. Late Stages of Accumulation and Early Evolution of the Planets; 13 12. Giant Planets and Their Satellites: What are the Relationships Between Their Properties and How They Formed?; 14 13. The Thermal Conditions of Venus; 15 14. Degassing; 16 15. The Role of Impacting Processes in the Chemical Evolution of the Atmosphere of Primordial Earth; 17 16. Lithospheric and Atmospheric Interaction on the Planet Venus; 18 17. Runaway Greenhouse Atmospheres: Applications to Earth and Venus; 19 18. The Oort Cloud; 20 19. The Chaotic Dynamics of Comets and the Problems of the Oort Cloud; 21 20. Progress in Extra-Solar Planet Detection; 22 Appendix I: List of Participants; 23 Appendix II: List of Presentations

About the Author

Thomas M. Donahue, Kathleen Kearney Trivers, and David M. Abramson,Editors; National Academy of Sciences