When Worlds Collide: Inauguration of the Munich Center for Geoastronomy

Keynote Talk: The First Minerals and Rocks of the Solar System

6 Oct 2026, 10:00

1h

A 140 (LMU Main Building (Hauptgebäude))

Speaker

Prof. Mark Chaussidon (IPGP, Paris, 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.

Presentation materials

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