| 1 | Introduction | | |
| 2 | Dust clouds, star formation | Discuss chambers (2004) | |
| 3 | What is a good question? | Material given in class | |
| 4 | Stars and disks | | |
| 5 | Dust accretion | Discuss Dominik, et al. (2007) | |
| 6 | Accretion signatures, T-Tauri disks, lifetimes, compositions | Safronov (1969) introduction | |
| 7 | Orderly and runaway growth | Discuss Lodders (2003) | |
| 8 | Integrated model of the planetary disk | | |
| 9 | Efforts to model accretion | Raymond, et al. (2006) | |
| 10 | Differentiation I | Discuss Hillgren, et al. (1994) | |
| 11 | Differentiation II | Discuss Jacobsen (2003) | Practice questions due |
| 12 | Planetesimals | Discuss Hevey and Sanders | |
| 13 | Planetesimals: compositions and distributions | Discuss Scott (2007) | |
| 14 | Effects of the star | Discuss Ribas, et al. (2005) | |
| 15 | Moons | Discuss Canup (2004) | |
| 16 | | | Cancelled |
| 17 | Melting from the outside and the inside | | |
| 18 | Magma ocean processes | Discuss Elkins-Tanton (2008) | |
| 19 | Exoplanet systems | | |
| 20 | | | No class |
| 21 | Volatiles | Discuss Jewitt, et al. (2007) | |
| 22 | Planetary crusts | Presentations | |
| 23 | Venus, Mercury, Earth, Mars — surfaces | | |
| 24 | Venus, Mercury, Earth, Mars — interiors | Albarede and Blichert Toft (2007) | |
| 25 | | | No class |
| 26 | Habitability and biosignatures | Kasting and Catling (2003) | Qs and As due |
| 27 | Ocean worlds | Spiegel, et al. (2008) | Review article due |
| 28 | Desert worlds | | |
