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Preface | p. vii |
Sponsors and Organizing Committee | p. ix |
Lecturers | p. xi |
XIII CCE Program | p. xiii |
Group Photograph | p. xv |
Planet Formation | p. 3 |
Observations | p. 3 |
The Solar System | p. 3 |
Extrasolar Planets | p. 6 |
Planetary System Evolution | p. 11 |
Migration in Gaseous Disks | p. 12 |
Migration in Planetesimal Disks | p. 28 |
Planetary System Stability | p. 33 |
Acknowledgments | p. 41 |
References | p. 41 |
The Modeling and Dynamics of Small Asteroids as Physical Bodies | p. 45 |
Introduction | p. 45 |
An Introduction to Asteroids as Physical Bodies | p. 46 |
Recent History of Explorations | p. 46 |
Some Statistical Properties of NEAs | p. 49 |
Recent Advances in Asteroid Geophysics | p. 50 |
Indications and Extrapolations | p. 53 |
Particle and Spacecraft Orbital Mechanics | p. 54 |
Environment Models | p. 55 |
Equations of Motion | p. 57 |
Approximate Solutions of the Equations of Motion | p. 58 |
Summary | p. 63 |
Full-Body Orbital Mechanics: Binary Asteroids | p. 63 |
Basics of the N-Body Problem | p. 64 |
Extension to the Full Two Body Problem | p. 65 |
Hill Stability | p. 70 |
Stability against Impact | p. 71 |
Summary | p. 72 |
The YORP Effect | p. 72 |
Basic Considerations | p. 73 |
Rotational Dynamics | p. 76 |
Summary | p. 80 |
The Physical Evolution of Asteroids | p. 80 |
Introduction | p. 81 |
Physical Model | p. 82 |
Discussions and Hypotheses | p. 86 |
Summary | p. 93 |
Conclusions | p. 94 |
Acknowledgments | p. 94 |
References | p. 94 |
Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation | p. 101 |
Summary | p. 101 |
Dark Matter is our Friend | p. 102 |
What about MOND? | p. 110 |
Dark Matter Particles | p. 111 |
Dark Energy | p. 111 |
Challenges on Small Scales: Satellites, Cusps, Disks | p. 112 |
Subhalos and Satellites | p. 112 |
Cusps in Galaxy Centers | p. 114 |
Galactic Disks | p. 117 |
Small Scale Issues: Summary | p. 118 |
Galaxy Data vs. Simulations | p. 118 |
Semi-Analytic Models of Galaxy Formation | p. 125 |
Acknowledgments | p. 131 |
References | p. 131 |
List of Participants | p. 139 |
Author Index | p. 141 |
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