Solar System History from Isotopic Signatures of Volatile Elements

This volume number 16 in the Space Sciences Series of ISSI reviews the present knowledgeonmanyaspectsofthehistoryofthesolarsystem. Itfocuses onisotopic signatures ofvolatile elements as tracers for the evolutionary processes during the formation of the Sun and the planets from an interstellar molecular cloud and in tum illuminates how the isotopic compositions of present-day solar system ob- jects had been established. This integrated collection of articles complements the information provided by previous ISSI volumes such as From Dust to Terrestrial Planets and Chronology and Evolution of Mars expanding the time scale for the history ofthe solar system. The convenors Therese Encrenaz Observatoire de Paris Meudon; Johannes Geiss ISSI Bern; Reinald Kallenbach ISSI Bern; Konrad Mauersberger Max- Planck-Institut fUr Kernphysik Heidelberg; Tobias Owen University of Hawaii Honolulu; and Fran ois Robert CNRS-Museum dHistoire Naturelle Paris in- vited experts in planetary science solar and heliospheric physics astrophysics mineralogy and chemistry to an interdisciplinary workshop in Bern 14-18 Jan- uary 2002. The resulting review articles are grouped into four sections Sun and Protosolar Nebula Outer Solar System Earth Terrestrial Planets and Moon and Isotopic FractionationProcesses.