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A workshop was held Jully 24-25, 2010, at The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), Borough of Manhattan, City of New York, to explore the link between our physical understanding of protoplanetary disks and the evidence from extraterrestrial materials. Scientific organizing committee: M. Kuchner , M-M. Mac Low , and E.D. Young . Sponsors: The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), the Arthur Ross Foundation, Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI). Rationale: Extraterrestrial materials provide a growing array of constraints on the history of the solar system in all stages of its formation. Observations and models of our own and other protoplanetary disks provide a growing body of complementary evidence. This workshop will bring together an interdisciplinary and global group of (1) observers of extrasolar disks and planets, (2) experts in the physical modeling of disks in time and space, and (3) specialists in the physical, chemical and isotopic properties of meteorites, comet samples, and planetary materials. Pictures from the week of meetings are posted on Flickr, here: PHOTOS. (Credit Isabelle Erb) |