Table of Contents

I Zodiacal Light — Measurements and Models.- Optical Investigation of Dust in the Solar System (Invited).- Four Years of Zodiacal Light Observations from the Helios Space Probes.- Brightness and Polarization of the Zodiacal Light: Results of Fixed-position Observations from Skylab.- The ISPM Zodiacal Light — Background Starlight Experiment.- Planned Observations of the Diffuse Sky Radiation During Shuttle Mission STS-4.- An Attempt to Observe Zodiacal Light at 5 µ with a Balloon Experiment.- Change in the Zodiacal Light with Solar Activity.- Two-dimensional Photographic Photometry of the Zodiacal Light from Spatial Observations.- Far-ultraviolet Studies. VIII. Apollo 17 Search for Zodiacal Light.- Photometric Axis Measurements of the Zodiacal Light at Large Elongations.- The Symmetry Plane of the Zodiacal Cloud Near 1 AU.- Method for the Determination of Density and Phase Functions of Interplanetary Dust.- Method of Scattering Plane Scanning.- Inversion of the Zodiacal Brightness Integral: a new Geometric Approach.- Evidence that the Properties of Interplanetary Dust Beyond 1 AU are Not Homogeneous.- Zodiacal Light Models with a Bimodal Population.- Wavelength Dependent Models of the Zodiacal Light.- II Meteors and Meteorites.- Meteors and Atmospheres (Invited).- The Influence of the Atmosphere on Radar Meteor Rates.- Serial Correlation of Meteor Radar Rates.- Analysis of Meteor Data.- Orbit, Chemical Composition and Atmospheric Fragmentation of a Meteoriod from Instantaneous Photographs.- Two Station Television Meteor Studies.- One Hundred and Fifteen Years of Meteor Spectroscopy.- Correlation of Height and Forbidden Oxygen Line Strength for Perseid Meteors.- Experimental and Theoretical Study of Radiometeors.- Ground Radar Detection of Meteoroids in Space.- OnTime-dependent Models of the Meteoric Background Complex.- Evolution of Meteoroid Orbits Over Millenia.- The Core of the Meteor Stream Associated with Comet Halley.- The Quadrantid Meteor Stream: Past, Present and Future.- Evolution of Orbits and Intersection Conditions with the Earth of the Geminid and Quarantid Meteor Streams.- The Structures of the Taurid, Geminid and Quarantid Meteor Streams.- Television Observations of the Delta-Aquarid Shower.- Observational and Theoretical Aspects of Fireballs (Invited).- Interaction of Large Bodies with the Earth’s Atmosphere (Invited).- Probability of Collision with the Earth and Orbital Life-Time of Bodies of Asteroidal and Cometary Origin.- The Stream of Crater Forming Meteorites on the Earth.- On the Mass Distribution of Meteorites and Their Influx Rate.- III The Interplanetary Dust Complex 1. Sources, Evolution, and Dynamics.- Sources of Interplanetary Dust (Invited).- Physical Characteristics of Cometary Dust from Optical Studies (Invited).- Physical Characteristics of Cometary Dust from Dynamical Studies: A Review (Invited).- On the Particle-Size Distribution Function of Cometary Dust.- On the Dust Production Rates of Comets.- Nature of Dust Grains in the Atmosphere of Comet Ashbrook.- Ultraviolet Albedo of Comet West (1976 VI).- Evidence for Fragmentation of Strongly Nonspherical Dust Particles in the Tail of Comet West 1976 VI.- Experiments on Dust Collection for a Cometary Mission.- Dust Experiment for a Rendezvous Cometary Mission.- An Impact Mass-Spectrometer for the Halley Probe.- In Situ Measurements of Interplanetary Dust in the Inner Solar System (Invited).- Circumsolar Motion of Dust of Particles at the Stage of Increasing Solar Luminosity.- A Simple Derivation of the Radiation Forces Felt by ScatteringParticles.- Effect of Radiation Pressure on the Restricted Three-body Problem.- Collisions Among Interplanetary Dust Grains.- Dynamics of Micrometeoroids.- Poynting-Robertson Effect and Collisions in the Interplanetary Dust Cloud.- The Electrostatic Potential of Interplanetary Grains.- Motion of Charged Dust Particles in Interplanetary Dust.- Electromagnetic Effects on the Zodiacal Dust Cloud.- Electromagnetic Effects on Hyperbolic Cosmic Dust Particles.- A Two-Stream Instability in Streams of Charged Grains.- Trajectories of Sublimating Interplanetary Dust Grains.- Orbital Elements of Micrometeoroids Detected by the Helios 1 Space Probe in the Inner Solar System.- A Monte Carlo Simulation of the Mass Distribution in an Accreting System of Dust Particles.- Submicron Particles in Meteor Streams.- IV The Interplanetary Dust Complex 2. Physical Properties.- Analysis of Interplanetary Dust Collections. (Invited).- From Interstellar Dust to Comets to the Zodiacal Light (Invited).- Laboratory Measurements on the Infrared Features of Interstellar Silicate Grains.- Cosmic Dust Synthesized in Reducing Environments.- Collisional Processes of Iron and Steel Projectiles on Targets of Different Densities.- Determination of Particle Densities by Penetration Studies.- Thermomagnetic Study of Chondrules.- Evidence for Ice Meteoroids Beyond 2 AU.- Existence and Role of Amorphous Grains in the Solar System.- Grain Disruption by Collisions with Solar Energetic Particles.- Radiation Induced Rotation of Interplanetary Dust Particles; a Feasibility Study for a Space Experiment.- Micrometeoroid Multiple Foil Penetration and Particle Recovery Experiments on Board Space Shuttle’s Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF).- V Particles and Planets.- Planetary Rings (Invited).- Charged Dust Ringsin the Outer Planetary Magnetospheres.- Orbits of Submicron Lunar Ejecta in the Earth-Moon System.- Interaction of Lunar Ejecta and the Magnetosphere of the Earth.- VI Summary by P.M. Millman.