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Planetary Sciences: American and Soviet Research/Proceedings from the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Workshop on Planetary Sciences (1991)
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National Research Council. "18. The Oort Cloud." Planetary Sciences: American and Soviet Research/Proceedings from the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Workshop on Planetary Sciences. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1991. 1. Print.

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Front Matter (R1-R10)
1. The Properties and Environment of Primitive Solar Nebulae as Deduced from Observations of Solar-Type Pre-Main Sequence Stars (1-16)
2. Numerical Two-Dimensional Calculations of the Formation of the Solar Nebula (17-30)
3. Three-Dimensional Evolution of Early Solar Nebula (31-43)
4. Formation and Evolution of the Protoplanetary Disk (44-60)
5. Physical-Chemical Processes in a Protoplanetary Cloud (61-69)
6. Magnetohydrodynamic Puzzles in the Protoplanetary Nebula (70-81)
7. Formation of Planetesimals (82-97)
8. Formation of the Terrestrial Planets from Planetesimals (98-115)
9. The Rate of Planet Formation and the Solar System's Small Bodies (116-125)
10. Astrophysical Dust Grains in Stars, the Interstellar Medium, and the Solar System (126-142)
11. Late Stages of Accumulation and Early Evolution of the Planets (143-162)
12. Giant Planets and Their Satellites: What are the Relationships Between Their Properties and How They Formed? (163-173)
13. The Thermal Conditions of Venus (174-190)
14. Degassing (191-202)
15. The Role of Impacting Processes in the Chemical Evolution of the Atmosphere of Primordial Earth (203-217)
16. Lithospheric and Atmospheric Interaction on the Planet Venus (218-233)
17. Runaway Greenhouse Atmospheres: Applications to Earth and Venus (234-245)
18. The Oort Cloud (246-258)
19. The Chaotic Dynamics of Comets and the Problems of the Oort Cloud (259-269)
20. Progress in Extra-Solar Planet Detection (270-288)
Appendix I: List of Participants (289-291)
Appendix II: List of Presentations (292-294)
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