the various and sometimes fabulous new proof approximately planetary earrings and comet environments that have been suggested via the interplanetary missions oflate Nineteen Seventies - Eighties motivated investigations of the so-called dusty plasma. The variety of medical papers at the topic which were released considering that is sort of remarkable. lately, a number of surveys and exact magazine concerns have seemed. Time has come to combine many of the wisdom in a publication. it appears, this is often the 1st monograph on dusty and self-gravitational plasmas. whereas the circle of pertinent difficulties is quite basically outlined, no longer them all are both represented right here. The authors have focused on cooperative phenomena (Le. waves and instabilities) within the dusty plasma and the results of self-gravitation. while, in an try and current the immense fabric regularly, we've got incorporated such subject matters as electrostatics of the dusty plasma and gravitoelectrodynamics of person charged debris. additionally pointed out are astrophysical implications, normally touching on planetary earrings. we are hoping that the ebook will probably be of curiosity and price either to experts and people (astro )physicists who've simply chanced on this region of plasma physics. we're grateful to many scientists actively operating within the box of dusty plasma physics who've generously allow us to turn into accustomed to their effects, occasionally sooner than e-book in their personal papers: U. de Angelis, N. D'Angelo, o. Havnes, A. Mendis, M. Rosenberg, P. Shukla, F. Verheest, and E. Wollman.