The building blocks of planets within the ‘terrestrial’ region of protoplanetary disks

@article{Boekel2004TheBB,
  title={The building blocks of planets within the ‘terrestrial’ region of protoplanetary disks},
  author={Roy van Boekel and Michiel Min and Ch. Leinert and L. B. F. M. Waters and Andrea Richichi and Olivier Chesneau and Carsten Dominik and Walter Joseph Jaffe and A. Dutrey and Uwe Graser and Th. Henning and Jeroen de Jong and Rainer K{\"o}hler and Alex de Koter and Bruno Lopez and Fabien Malbet and S'ebastien Morel and Francesco Paresce and Guy Perrin and Thomas Preibisch and Frank Przygodda and Markus Sch{\"o}ller and Markus Wittkowski},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2004},
  volume={432},
  pages={479-482}
}
Our Solar System was formed from a cloud of gas and dust. Most of the dust mass is contained in amorphous silicates, yet crystalline silicates are abundant throughout the Solar System, reflecting the thermal and chemical alteration of solids during planet formation. (Even primitive bodies such as comets contain crystalline silicates.) Little is known about the evolution of the dust that forms Earth-like planets. Here we report spatially resolved detections and compositional analyses of these… 
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