Workshop on Chondrites and the Protoplanetary Disk

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/chondrites2004/

Chondrites and the Protoplanetary Disk
November 8-11, 2004
Kauai, Hawaii

MEETING LOCATION AND DATE

The Workshop on Chondrites and the Protoplanetary Disk will be held
November 8-11, 2004, at the Radisson Kaua`i Beach Resort Hotel, 4331
Kaua`i Beach Drive, Lihue, Hawai`i (888-805-3843, www.radissonkauai.com).

PURPOSE AND SCOPE

The goal of this interdisciplinary conference is to understand how
components in primitive chondrites and interplanetary dust particles
were formed and thermally processed in the protoplanetary disk by
comparing cosmochemical constraints with astronomical observations of
young stellar objects, protostellar disks, and astrophysical models
for thermal processing of dust by shock waves, disk winds, and
asteroidal collisions. The workshop will review the major advances
since the 1994 meeting on Chondrules and the Protoplanetary Disk in
characterizing and understanding the isotopic, mineralogical, and
chemical compositions of chondritic components in diverse kinds of
primitive chondrites, constraining their ages and thermal histories,
and developing models for their origin and accretion into chondritic
planetesimals.

This four-day meeting will focus on understanding the high-temperature
processes that formed chondrules, Ca-Al-rich inclusions, amoeboid
olivine aggregates, and components in chondritic matrices and
interplanetary dust particles and will attempt to relate these to
the processes responsible for the formation and evolution of the
protoplanetary disk and disks around young stars.