You are cordially invited to submit a paper to a special issue of Planetary and Space Science (PSS) dedicated to cosmic dust and related topics. Any kind of cosmic dust can be considered, including protoplanetary and debris disk dust, presolar grains, cometary and interplanetary dust, micrometeorites and meteors, regolith particles and planetary aerosols. Also welcome are papers on dust-related topics, e.g., formation of molecules and their reactions on and their desorption from the surface of a solid substance; light scattering by non-spherical particles and particulate surfaces; space missions and instrumentation for measurements of particulates.

The special issue is primarily devoted to the papers presented at the 9th meeting on Cosmic Dust (Cosmic Dust IX) see: https://www.cps-jp.org/~dust/Welcome_IX.html However, it is open to submission of any papers on cosmic dust.

Deadline for submission: November 30, 2016. All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through Elsevier system

EVISE at: http://www.evise.com/evise/faces/pages/navigation/NavController.jspx?JRNL_ACR=pss

The authors must select SI: Cosmic Dust IX on the Enter Manuscript Information step in the submission process. A request for additional information should be addressed to the guest editors at <[email protected]>.