Planetesimals (eBook, ePUB)

Early Differentiation and Consequences for Planets
Redaktion: Elkins-Tanton, Linda T.

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Produktbeschreibung

Processes governing the evolution of planetesimals are critical to understanding how rocky planets are formed, how water is delivered to them, the origin of planetary atmospheres, how cores and magnetic dynamos develop, and ultimately, which planets have the potential to be habitable. Theoretical advances and new data from asteroid and meteorite observations, coupled with spacecraft missions such as Rosetta and Dawn, have led to major advances in this field over the last decade. This transdisciplinary volume presents an authoritative overview of the latest in our understanding of the processes of planet formation. Combining meteorite, asteroid and icy body observations with theory and modelling of accretion and orbital dynamics, this text also provides insights into the exoplanetary system and the search for habitable worlds. This is an essential reference for those interested in planetary formation, solar system dynamics, exoplanets and planetary habitability.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316861592
• Artikelnr.: 49272262

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; 1. Planetesimals Benjamin P. Weiss; Part I. Dynamical
Evolution: 2. Signatures of hit and run collisions Erik Asphaug; 3. Using
the main asteroid belt to constrain planetesimal and planet formation
William Bottke and A. Morbidelli; Part II. Chemical and Mineralogical
Diversity: 4. Differentiation under highly reducing conditions: new
insights from meteorites and mercury Timothy J. McCoy and Emma S. Bullock;
5. Origin and evolution of volatile-rich asteroids Julie Castillo-Rogez and
Edward Young; 6. Silicate melting and volatile loss during differentiation
in planetesimals Roger R. Fu, Edward Young, Richard C. Greenwood and Linda
T. Elkins-Tanton; 7. Iron and stony-iron meteorites: evidence for the
formation, crystallization, and early impact histories of differentiated
planetesimals Alex M. Ruzicka, Henning Haack, Nancy L. Chabot and Edward R.
D. Scott; 8. Arguments for the non-existence of magma oceans in asteroids
Lionel Wilson and Klaus Keil; 9. Magnetic fields on asteroids and
planetesimals Aaron Scheinberg, Roger R. Fu, Linda T. Elkins-Tanton,
Benjamin P. Weiss and Sabine Stanley; 10. Magnetic mineralogy of meteoritic
metal: paleomagnetic evidence for dynamo activity on differentiated
planetesimals Richard J. Harrison, James F. J. Bryson, Claire I. O. Nichols
and Benjamin P. Weiss; 11. Chronology of planetesimal differentiation
Thorsten Kleine and Meenakshi Wadhwa; 12. Stable isotope evidence for the
differentiation and evolution of planetesimals Anat Shahar, Paul Savage and
Fred Moynier; Part III. Asteroids as Records of Formation and
Differentiation: 13. Composition of Solar System small bodies Pierre
Vernazza and Pierre Beck; 14. Evidence for differentiation among asteroid
families Thomas H. Burbine, Francesca E. DeMeo, Andrew S. Rivkin and Vishnu
Reddy; 15. Dawn at Vesta: paradigms and paradoxes Carol A. Raymond,
Christopher T. Russell and Harry Y. McSween, Jr; 16. Planetesimals in
debris disks Andrew N. Youdin and George H. Rieke; Part IV. Early
Differentiation and Consequences for Planet Formation: 17. Consequences for
planet formation Linda T. Elkins-Tanton; Index.