Conceived more than six years ago, this book took much effort to develop, and several updates in parts of the book became necessary because significant ad vances in the field of Interplanetary Dust had occurred. Now, at the beginning of the new millennium, this book provides up-to-date coverage of all major aspects of dust in the Solar System. The volume is conceived as a source book for researchers in the field as well as a graduate-level textbook. In order to achieve the highest standard the individual chapters are written by experts in the field, preserving the somewhat different style and language of the sub-topic. The book follows the comprehensive review of the "Cosmic Dust" field assembled by Tony McDonnell more than 20 years ago. That book covered dust in its various physical appearances as the common theme, but it described phenomena that appeared rather unrelated. The topics ranged from zodiacal light over lunar craters to dust particles collected in the atmosphere, from interstellar dust to comets, and from dust dynamics to laboratory simulation of dusty phenomena.

This book will be regarded as the standard reference on interplanetary dust for many years to come Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Klappentext
Dust in interplanetary space has many faces: dust originating from comets and asteroids, and interstellar dust sweeping through our solar system. These three components have a genetic relationship: interstellar dust is the solid phase of interstellar matter from which stars and planets form. Cometary dust is the most pristine material from the early solar nebula, and dust from asteroids is material modified during the formation of the solar system. Dusty planetary rings are analogues of the interplanetary dust cloud in their own right. This handbook on the physics of interplanetary dust will be of interest to a broad readership, including astronomers, space scientists and engineers. The following topics are covered in the book: - historical perspectives - optical and thermal properties of interplanetary dust - cometary dust - near-Earth dust environment - meteors - laboratory analysis of collected dust grains - in situ measurements of cosmic dust - impirical modelling of the zodiacal dust cloud - instrumentation for detection and analysis of dust - physical processes affecting dust in space - light scattering by dust grains - orbital evolution of interplanetary dust - dusty planetary rings - interstellar and circumstellar dust

Inhalt
Color Plates.- Contributors.- Historical Perspectives.- I. Introductory Overview.- II. Early Reports on the Zodiacal Light.- III. Zodiacal Light Observations Until the Beginning of the Space Age.- IV. After the Beginning of the Space Age.- V. Microcraters on Lunar Surface Samples and the Lunar Ejecta and Micrometeorite Experiment.- VI. Experiments on Satellites and Space Probes.- VII. Important Results of the Dust Experiments PIA/PUMA and DIDSY on the Missions GIOTTO and VeGa to Comet Halley.- VIII. Outlook.- References.- Optical and Thermal Properties of Interplanetary Dust.- I. Zodiacal Scattered Light.- II. F-Corona Scattered Light.- III. Zodiacal and F -Coronal Thermal Emission.- IV. Local Scattering and Thermal Properties.- V. Conclusions and Perspectives.- References.- Cometary Dust.- I. Introduction.- II. Dust Dynamical Properties.- III. Dust Optical and Physical Properties.- IV. Dust Chemical and Isotopic Composition.- V. The Future.- References.- Near Earth Environment.- I. Introduction.- II. The Earth as a Target.- II.B. Meteoroid Properties and Dynamics.- III. Space Debris.- IV. Modelling Tools.- V. Measurements.- VI. Summary.- References.- Discoveries from Observations and Modeling of the 1998/99 Leonids.- I. Introduction.- II. Meteoroid Streams and Meteor Storms.- III. Observing Campaigns.- IV. Meteoroid Morphology and Composition.- V. The Impact Hazard.- VI. Interaction of Meteoroids with the Atmosphere.- VII. Atmospheric Phenomena.- References.- Properties of Interplanetary Dust: Information from Collected Samples.- I. Introduction.- II. Antarctic and Greenland Micrometeorites.- III. Stratospheric Interplanetary Dust.- IV. Origins.- References.- In situ Measurements of Cosmic Dust.- I. Introduction.- II. Characteristics of In-Situ Dust Measurements in Space.- III. Measurements at 1 AU.- IV. Measurements Within the Zodiacal Cloud.- V. Measurements in the Outer Solar System.- VI. Characteristics of the Interplanetary Dust Complex as Measured by Spacecraft.- VII. Future Developments.- References.- Synthesis of Observations.- Preamble.- I. Introduction.- II. Early Modeling.- III. Basic Formulation.- IV. Meteoroid Data Sets.- V. Divine's Original Model Populations.- VI. Comparison of Divine's Model with Observations.- VII. New Results.- VIII. Future Developments.- References.- Instrumentation.- I. Introduction.- II. Detection and Characterization of Dust Particles.- III. Flight Instrumentation.- IV. Laboratory Simulation.- References.- Physical Processes on Interplanetary Dust.- I. Introduction.- II. Collisional Growth of Solid Particles.- III. Collisional Fragmentation.- IV. Sublimation.- V. Sputtering.- VI. Charging.- VII. Lifetimes.- References.- Interactions with Electromagnetic Radiation: Theory and Laboratory Simulations.- I. Introduction.- II. A Physical Dust Model.- III. Optical Constants.- IV. Scattering Solutions.- V. Results.- VI. Closing Remarks.- References.- Orbital Evolution of Interplanetary Dust.- I. Introduction.- II. Forces and Collisions.- III. Orbital Evolution.- IV. Dust Bands.- V. Background Cloud.- VI. Resonant Ring.- VII. Accretion of IDPs.- VIII. Conclusions.- References.- Dusty Rings and Circumplanetary Dust: Observations and Simple Physics.- I. Introduction.- II. Description.- III. Physical and Dynamical Processes Acting on Circumplanetary Dust.- IV. Celestial Mechanics and Orbital Evolution.- V. Putting It Together.- VI. Expected Advances.- References.- Interstellar Dust and Circumstellar Dust Disks.- I. Landmarks in Interstellar Dust Research.- II. Dust and Galactic Evolution.- III. Dust inDiffuse Interstellar Clouds.- IV. Dust in Molecular Clouds and Star-Forming Regions.- V. Dust in Stellar Outflows.- VI. Dust in Young Circumstellar Disks and Planetary Systems.- References.