Speaker
Prof.
Mark Chaussidon
(Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris - IPGP, France)
Description
One of the major unknowns regarding the early evolution of the solar system is how the first solids and rocks formed from the initial mixture of gas and dust inherited from the parent molecular cloud. Clues are provided by combining observations of the mineralogical, chemical, and isotopic composition of the components of primitive meteorites with astrophysical models of the accretion disk.