From: Amara Lynn Graps <amara.graps@ifsi-roma.inaf.it>
Reply-To: amara.graps@ifsi-roma.inaf.it
Organization: INAF-IFSI
Subject: [DIPS2005] Proceedings: A Dusty Status Report
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:11:45 +0200


Dear DIPS 2005 Proceedings Authors,


It has been some time since you've heard from us; here is the status
of the Proceedings Book for the Dust in Planetary Systems 2005
conference in Kauai, Hawaii.

The chapters for the book (*) are the following:
http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/dustgroup/~graps/dips2005/dipschapters.html

Status:
-All chapters are submitted, refereed, completed.
-All chapters are indexed.
-We have a Table of Contents.
-The editors have written a Preface.
-Harald Krueger has the first-draft printout, which he and
I will be reviewing together next week while at EUROPLANET.

Still to do: 
-Check a few papers for grammar.
-Design the cover graphic.
-Make the necessary arrangements at ESTEC (via Gerhard Schwehm)
for printing and stamping CDs.

My guess is that the printing will be October or latest, November.

Question:

* Are you interested to have web access to individual papers? (Please
answer to dips2005@mps.mpg.de). Note that you will have a CD of the
entire book, in addition to the hard copy, so it will be the dust
community's first fully searchable Dust Reference book.

For the non-DIPS2005 folks, I think that making individual chapters 
downloadable would be a nice service. For individual papers to be freely
downloadable, we would need 1) your consent, 2) ESA permission. 
We will work on getting the latter ESA permission, while we arrange the
printing.

Viva la dust! 

It has been a busy and productive year for our community. Many thanks
too, for your input to the Wikipedia Cosmic Dust pages (**). Keep that
input coming...

Greetings from Rome,

Amara Graps
(and virtually : Harald Krueger)

(*) http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/dustgroup/~graps/dips2005/
(**) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_dust