Experiments on cosmic dust analogues : proceedings of the second international workshop of the astronomical observatory of Capodimonte (OAC 2), held at Capri, Italy, September 8-12, 1987

Introductory Reports.- Comet Nucleus Sample Return Mission.- Initial Comet Simulation Experiments at DFVLR.- Methods and Difficulties in Laboratory Studies of Cosmic Dust Analogues.- Experiments on the Formation, Properties and Processing of Cosmic Dust.- Solid Carbon in Space.- PAHs, The State of Art.- Laboratory Production of Amorphous Silicates.- Ion Bombardment: Techniques, Materials and Applications.- The Structure and Dynamics of Amorphous Water Ice and Trapping of Gases in it.- Contributed Papers.- * Carbonaceous Materials.- A New Identifications of the 6.2, 7.7 and 8.5 m Circumstellar Emission Features with Oxidized QCC.- On PAHs as Interstellar Grains: Infrared Absorption Coefficients.- Experimental Evidences for Hac and PAHs Soup in Space.- IR Spectroscopy of ACID Insoluble Residues of Carbonaceous Chondrites.- Light Standing-Waves in Aggregates of Amorphous Carbon Grains.- Hydrogenated Amorphous Carbon-Coated Silicate Particles: Diamond and Graphite-like Carbons and Interstellar Extinction.- Amorphous Carbon and Silicon Carbide Grains around Carbon Stars.- Grain Formation Experiments by a Plasma Jet Apparatus.- Determination of the U.V.-Visible Optical Properties of Submicronic Carbonaceous Particles at High Temperature from Scattering and Extinction Measurements.- * Silicatic Materials.- Experimental Studies of Circumstellar, Interstellar and Interplanetary Refractory Grains Analogs.- Optical Properties of Glassy Bronzite and the Interstellar Silicate Bands.- Piroxene Glasses - Candidates for Interstellar Silicates.- Silicate Grains in Space: Laboratory Results.- Laboratory Studies of Extraterrestrial Chemistry Initiated by Atomic Silicon Ions in the Gas Phase.- Light Scattering from Simulated Interstellar Dust.- Laboratory Measurements of Light Scattering by Dust Particles.- * Ices.- Molecular Diffusions in Ices - Implications for the Composition of Interstellar Grain Mantles and Comet Nuclei.- Formation of Particulates by Ion Bombardment of Cryogenic Ice Mixtures.- Some Consequences of Frozen Gas Irradiation by Energetic Ions.- HD and Co Release during MeV Ion Irradiation OF H2O/CD4 Frozen Mixtures AT 9 K.- * Observations and Models.- Studies of Absorption Features in the 3 m Spectra of Highly Obscured Stellar and Protostellar Objects.- An Ionic Look at Interstellar Grain Mantles.- Infrared Properties of Interstellar Grains Derived from Iras Observations.- Interstellar Circular Polarization and the Dielectric Nature.- Size Distribution of Cometary Dust, Meteoroids and Zodiacal Grains.- A Zodiacal Dust Emission Model.- Reports of the Working Groups.- Report of the Working Group on Carbon.- Report of the Working Group on Silicates.- Report of the Working Group on Ice and Related Topics.- Index of Subjects.