SCATTERING AND POLARIZATION PROPERTIES OF
                       THE NON-SPHERICAL PARTICLES

                           N.V.Voshchinnikov
         Astronomy Department and Sobolev Astronomical Institute,
          St.Petersburg University, St.Petersburg 198504 Russia


                               ABSTRACT

The albedo and dichroic polarization of spheroidal particles are studied.
For the description of the phase  function two asymmetry parameters $g_{||}$
and $g_{\bot}$ characterizing the anisotropy in forward/backward and
left/right directions are introduced and calculated. The consideration
is based on the solution to the light scattering problem by the Separation
of Variables Method (Voshchinnikov and Farafonov, 1993).