Preface for special issue on Meteoroids, Meteors and Small bodies in the solar system: A special issue of the Meteoroids 2019 Conference

This Special Issue includes manuscripts reporting results presented at the Meteoroids 2019 conference that took place in Bratislava, Slovakia, from June 17-21, 2019. Meteoroids 2019 was the tenth international conference in a series of meetings on meteors, meteoroids, meteorites, interplanetary dust, and related topics, which have been held since 1992. The previous meeting, Meteoroids 2016 was held in ESTEC, Noordwijk, the Netherlands. Meteoroids 2019 was dedicated to the pioneering Interplanetary Matter Bratislava group of the Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS), in particular to one of its original members, Prof. Vladimír Porubčan, who is also one of the founders of the Meteoroids conference series. The conference was organized by Comenius University in Bratislava and its department of Astronomy and Astrophysics with the participation of colleagues from the Astronomical Institute of the SAS.