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Yuya Mimasu

Researcher at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Publications -  120
Citations -  2691

Yuya Mimasu is an academic researcher from Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The author has contributed to research in topics: Solar sail & Spacecraft. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 107 publications receiving 1399 citations. Previous affiliations of Yuya Mimasu include Kyushu University.

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Hayabusa2 arrives at the carbonaceous asteroid 162173 Ryugu—A spinning top–shaped rubble pile

Sei-ichiro Watanabe, +99 more
- 19 Mar 2019 - 
TL;DR: The Hayabusa2 spacecraft measured the mass, size, shape, density, and spin rate of asteroid Ryugu, showing that it is a porous rubble pile, and observations of Ryugu's shape, mass, and geomorphology suggest that Ryugu was reshaped by centrifugally induced deformation during a period of rapid rotation.
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The geomorphology, color, and thermal properties of Ryugu: Implications for parent-body processes

Seiji Sugita, +132 more
- 19 Apr 2019 - 
TL;DR: Spectral observations and a principal components analysis suggest that Ryugu originates from the Eulalia or Polana asteroid family in the inner main belt, possibly via more than one generation of parent bodies.
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An artificial impact on the asteroid (162173) Ryugu formed a crater in the gravity-dominated regime

Masahiko Arakawa, +81 more
- 03 Apr 2020 - 
TL;DR: An impact experiment on Ryugu is described using Hayabusa2’s Small Carry-on Impactor, which produced an artificial crater with a diameter >10 meters, which has a semicircular shape, an elevated rim, and a central pit, and implications for Ryugu's surface age are discussed.
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Sample collection from asteroid (162173) Ryugu by Hayabusa2: Implications for surface evolution

Tomokatsu Morota, +117 more
- 08 May 2020 - 
TL;DR: The authors conclude that the asteroid experienced a prior period of strong solar heating caused by changes in its orbit, and suggest that Ryugu previously experienced an orbital excursion near the Sun.
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Highly porous nature of a primitive asteroid revealed by thermal imaging

Tatsuaki Okada, +97 more
- 26 Mar 2020 - 
TL;DR: Thermal imaging data obtained from the spacecraft Hayabusa2 reveal that the carbonaceous asteroid 162173 Ryugu is an object of unusually high porosity, which constrain the formation history of Ryugu.