D. A. Mendis

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an up-to-date overview of dusty plasma effects in Saturn's magnetosphere and draw attention to several outstanding problems that could be resolved by the Cassini mission.

TL;DR: In this article, the trajectories of the smallest (micron and submicron-sized) dust grains that are expected to be released from a cometary nucleus are calculated using a simple model of the particles and fields environment of a comet.

TL;DR: In this article, a numerical simulation has been performed to calculate the distributions of dust particles of various sizes down the tail of comet P/Giacobini-Zinner, and it is found that the distribution of the grains (particularly at the lowest end of the mass spectrum) in a plane normal to the orbital plane is entirely different from what is expected had the grains been uncharged.

TL;DR: In this paper, the coupled continuity, momentum, and energy equations were solved for ionospheric conditions appropriate for Comet Halley at 1 AU, such that any shock transition appears naturally in the solution and no a priori assumptions are necessary.

TL;DR: In situ measurements of the composition and spatial distribution of heavy thermal positive ions in the coma of comet Halley were made with the heavy-ion analyzer RPA2-PICCA aboard the Giotto spacecraft as mentioned in this paper.