Dear DIPS 2005 Proceedings Authors, Happy New Year's 2007! PROCEEDINGS - PRINTED VERSION ----------------------------- The Proceedings Book for the Dust in Planetary Systems 2005 conference in Kauai, Hawaii went to the printing office during the second week of December 2006. They estimate that they will send out the books by the end of this month (January). You will receive a printed book. The full reference should be, but please check the January date when you receive your copy to be sure: Krüger, H. and Graps, A. editors, "Dust in Planetary Systems" (Workshop, September 26-30 2005, Kauai, Hawaii), ESA Publications, SP-643, (January 2007). Attached is most of the Front Matter of the book, minus the page numbers and figure credits. To know your specific page numbers in the Proceedings, you can look up its placement via the attached Table-of-Contents. The beautiful Cover image is one that has not been published widely before now. It was kindly provided by Bill Reach, who gave the following explanation: "A view of the ecliptic plane as seen by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) in 1983. The colors are arranged by infrared wavelength: red is 60 microns, green is 25 microns, and blue is 12 microns. Dust in the interstellar medium is cold and hence red in this image, while structures in the solar system dust cloud are blue-green. A model for the smooth zodiacal cloud has been subtracted before generating the image. The horizontal bands are due to dust produced in asteroid families. Narrow diagonal streaks are due to dust produced by individual comets (notably 2P/Encke and 10P/Tempel 2). Credits: William T. Reach, IPAC, JPL, NASA" COPYRIGHT/OWNERSHIP ------------------- ESA retains copyright on the Proceedings book, but not the individual papers. They are yours. When you use your individual chapters, however, ESA requires that you acknowledge the original Proceedings book. PROCEEDINGS - ELECTRONIC VERSIONS --------------------------------- Please respond, where appropriate. CD --- The CD electronic proceedings, which contains your color figures will be 'stamped' outside of ESA and sent separately, to those who wish to have a CD. QUESTION: Would you like a CD of the electronic book? If yes, please respond 'yes - CD' to 'dips2005@mps.mpg.de' . Publicly-accessible chapters ---------------------------- In addition, we are arranging at least one web site (NASA ADS) for the individual papers to be publicly-accessible, with the possibility of a second archive site. To proceed on this task, we ask: QUESTION: Do you agree to have your chapter made publicly available? If yes, please respond 'yes - public' to 'dips2005@mps.mpg.de' . ================================= Viva la dust! Three Holiday Dusty News: * The December 15 Stardust Science issue http://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/stardust/ is wonderful. Thank you. * The _Interplanetary Dust_ (2001) book edited by Eberhard Gruen, Bo Å.S. Gustafson, Stan Dermott, and Hugo Fechtig, Springer Verlag, will be available as separate ELECTRONIC chapters from the NASA ADS site, courtesy of Guenther Eichhorn, at Harvard University and NASA ADS later this winter. * An interstellar dust astronomer at the University of Arizona (http://dirty.as.arizona.edu/~kgordon/) has offered to add INTERSTELLAR dust info this winter to our Wikipedia Cosmic Dust site, to make it more complete, and soon a full restructuring of the Cosmic Dust pages will follow. However, over Christmas, new confusing dust text was added by a dust enthusiast, but not by either of us, and it needs attention. The good news? At least the public is reading that entry! The bad news? The information should be correct! And the only scientists who are so far attending to the site have limited time. If you want to join in the Wikipedia fun, then you are welcome. ----> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_dust Thank you all, and Happy New Years / Buon Anno / Guten Rutsch ! Amara Graps Harald Krüger