Call for Papers: Planetary and Space Science Special Issue on Cosmic Dust VII

The 7th meeting on Cosmic Dust (Cosmic Dust VII) is held at Umeda Satellite Campus of Osaka Sangyo University, Osaka, Japan from Monday, August 4, 2014 through Friday, August 8, 2014. This special issue of Planetary and Space Science will be primarily devoted to Cosmic Dust VII and contain the papers presented at this particular meeting. However, it is also open to submission of any other papers that discuss some aspect of cosmic dust. All kinds of cosmic dust are the subject of discussion. Papers on dust-related topics, for example, the formation of molecules and their reactions on and their desorption from the surface of cosmic dust, are also welcome.

In particular, the topic of interest includes but is not limited to

• intergalactic dust
• interstellar dust
• protoplanetary disk dust
• debris disk dust
• cometary dust
• interplanetary dust
• circumplanetary dust
• stellar nebular condensates
• presolar grains
• micrometeorites
• meteoroids
• meteors
• regolith particles
• planetary aerosols

SUBMISSION FORMAT AND GUIDLINE:
All submitted papers must be clearly written in excellent English and contain only original work, which has not been published by or is currently under review for any other journal or conference. A detailed submission guideline is available as “Guide to Authors” at:
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/planetary-and-space-science/

All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through Elsevier Editorial System (EES). The authors must select as “SI: Cosmic Dust VII” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. The EES website is located at:
http://ees.elsevier.com/pss/

All papers will be peer-reviewed by two independent reviewers. Requests for additional information should be addressed to the guest editors <dust-inquiries@cps-jp.org>.

GUEST EDITORS:
Hiroshi Kimura (Kobe Univ., Japan)
Ludmilla Kolokolova (Univ. of Maryland, USA) Aigen Li (Univ. of Missouri, USA) Jean-Charles Augereau (IPAG, France) Hidehiro Kaneda (Nagoya Univ., Japan) Cornelia Jäger (MPIA, Germany)

IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline for submission: October 5, 2014 Deadline for acceptance: March 31, 2015
Publication: July, 2015