Readings

Chambers, John E. “Planetary Accretion in the Inner Solar System.” Earth and Planetary Science, 223 (2004): 241-252.

Dominik, Carsten, Jürgen Blum, Jeffrey N. Cuzzi, and Gerhard Wurm. “Growth of Dust as the Initial Step Toward Planet Formation.”

Johansen, Anders, Jeffrey S. Oishi, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Hubert Klahr, Thomas Henning, and Andrew Youdin. “Rapid Planetesimal Formation in Turbulent Circumstellar Discs.”

Safronov, V. S. Evolution of the Protoplanetry Cloud and Formation of the Earth and the Planets. Jerusalem, Israel: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1972. ISBN: 9780706512250.

Lodders, Katharina. “Solar System Abundances and Condensation Temperatures of the Elements.” The Astrophysical Journal 591 (July 10, 2003): 1220-1247.

Raymond, Sean N., Thomas Quinn, and Jonathan I. Lunine. “High-Resolution Simulations of the Final Assembly of Earth-like Planets I. Terrestrial Accretion and Dynamics.” Icarus 183 (2006): 265-282.

O’Brien, David P., Alessandro Morbidelli, and Harold F. Levison. “Terrestrial Planet Formation With Strong Dynamical Friction.” Icarus 184 (2006): 39-58.

Wetherill, George W. “Leonard Medal Citation for Victor Sergeivitch Safronov.” Meteoritics 24, no. 347 (1989).

Hillgren, Valerie J., Michael J. Drake, and David C. Rubie. “High-Pressure and High-Temperature Experiments on Core-Mantle Segregation in the Accreting Earth.” Science 264, no. 5164 (June 3, 1994): 1442-1445.

Ertela, Werner, Donald B. Dingwella, and Paul J. Sylvester. “Siderophile Elements in Silicate Melts — A Review of the Mechanically Assisted Equilibration Technique and the Nanonugget Issue.” Chemical Geology 248 (2008): 119-139.

Jacobsen, Stein B. “How Old Is Planet Earth?.” Science 300, no. 5625 (2003): 1513-1514.

Kleine, T., M. Touboul, B. Bourdon, F. Nimmo, K. Mezger, H. Palme, Q.-Z. Yin, S. B. Jacobsen, and A. N. Halliday. “Hf-W Chronometry and the Accretion and Early Evolution of Asteroids and Terrestrial Planets.”

Hevey, Phonsie J. and Ian S. Sanders. “A Model for Planetesimal Meltdown by Al and its Implications for Meteorite Parent Bodies.” Meteoritics & Planetary Science 41, no. 1 (2006): 95-106.

Sahijpal, S., P. Soni, and G. Gupta. “Numerical Simulations of the Differentiation of Accreting Planetesimals with Al and Fe as the Heat Sources.” Meteoritics & Planetary Science 42, no. 9 (2007): 1529-1548. (PDF).

Scott, Edward R. D. “Chondrites and the Protoplanetary Disk.” Annu Rev EarthPlanet Sci 35 (2007): 577-620. (PDF).

Becker R. H., R. N. Clayton, E. M. Galimov, H. Lammer, B. Marty, R. O. Pepin, and R. Wieler. “Isotopic Signatures of Volatiles in Terrestrial Planets.” Space Science Reviews 106 (2003): 377-410.

Ribas, Ignasi, Edward F. Guinan, Manuel Güdel, and Marc Audard. “Evolution of the Solar Activity Over Time and Effects on Planetry Atmospheres: I. High-Energy Irradiances.”

Canup, Robin M. “Dynamics of Lunar Formation.” Annu Rev Astron Astrophys 42, no. 1 (2004): 441-475.

Pahlevan, Kaveh, and David J. Stevenson. “Equilibration in the Aftermath of the Lunar-Forming Giant Impact.” Earth and Planetary Science 262 (2007): 438-449.

Morgan, John W., Edward Anders. “Chemical Composition of Mars.” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 43 (1979): 1601-1610.

Morgan, John W., Jan Hertogen, and Edward Anders. “The Moon: Composition Determined by Nebular Processes.” The Moon and the Planets 18 (1978): 465-478.

Elkins-Tanton, L. T. “Linked Magma Ocean Solidification and Atmospheric Growth for Earth and Mars.” Earth and Planetary Science 271 (2008): 181-191.

Jewitt, David, Lysa Chizmadia, Robert Grimm, and Dina Prialnik. “Water in the Small Bodies of the Solar System.” Protostars and Planets V. Edited by B. Reipurth. Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, 2006, pp. 863-878.

Albarède Francis, and Janne Blichert-Toft. “The Split Fate of the Early Earth, Mars, Venus, and Moon.” C. R. Geoscience 339, nos. 14-15 (2007): 917-927.

Kasting, James F., and David Catling. “Evolution of a Habitable Planet.” Annu Rev Astron Astrophys 41 (2003): 429-463.

Spiegel, David S., Kristen Menou, and Caleb A. Scharf. “Habitable Climates.” The Astrophysical Journal 681 (2008): 1609-1623.

Albarède Francis, and Janne Blichert-Toft. “The Split Fate of the Early Earth, Mars, Venus, and Moon.” C. R. Geoscience 339, nos. 14-15 (2007): 917-927.

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