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Origins of Volatiles in Habitable Planets: The Solar System and Beyond

Conference participants in front of the Michigan Union

Additional pictures below: Kuenzel, main conference room, poster display and participant discussion in the Wolverine Room

    Images by Stacy Tiburzi

Image Credit: Amaury Triaud

October 16-17, 2017

Michigan Union / Kuenzel Room /
530 S. State St. / Ann Arbor
University of Michigan Central Campus

Questions: Email volatiles@umich.edu

About the Workshop

This meeting will bring together experts from geophysics, cosmo-chemistry, planetary science, astronomy, and other disciplines, to address critical aspects of planet formation that may influence the volatile content of planets found inside the ice-line.

Questions that will be addressed include:

  • the primary carrier of various volatiles in evolving protoplanetary disk;
  • whether volatiles are retained in primordial bodies, or are delivered later as icy or wet planetesimals;
  • how volatiles are processed or lost during various stages of planetesimals growth;
  • the timing of volatile delivery in terms of the presence/absence of a magma ocean; and
  • the fate of the delivered material which could be carried by differentiating metals into the planet core or blasted into space by impact.