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Hayabusa2 Mission Overview
Sei-ichiro Watanabe,Sei-ichiro Watanabe,Yuichi Tsuda,Makoto Yoshikawa,Satoshi Tanaka,Takanao Saiki,Satoru Nakazawa +6 more
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The Hayabusa2 mission as mentioned in this paper was the first mission to explore a C-type near-Earth asteroid (162173) Ryugu (1999 JU3) to observe and explore the 900 m-sized object, and return samples collected from the surface layer.Abstract:
The Hayabusa2 mission journeys to C-type near-Earth asteroid (162173) Ryugu (1999 JU3) to observe and explore the 900 m-sized object, as well as return samples collected from the surface layer. The Haybusa2 spacecraft developed by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) was successfully launched on December 3, 2014 by an H-IIA launch vehicle and performed an Earth swing-by on December 3, 2015 to set it on a course toward its target Ryugu. Hayabusa2 aims at increasing our knowledge of the early history and transfer processes of the solar system through deciphering memories recorded on Ryugu, especially about the origin of water and organic materials transferred to the Earth’s region. Hayabusa2 carries four remote-sensing instruments, a telescopic optical camera with seven colors (ONC-T), a laser altimeter (LIDAR), a near-infrared spectrometer covering the 3-μm absorption band (NIRS3), and a thermal infrared imager (TIR). It also has three small rovers of MINERVA-II and a small lander MASCOT (Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout) developed by German Aerospace Center (DLR) in cooperation with French space agency CNES. MASCOT has a wide angle imager (MasCam), a 6-band thermal radiator (MARA), a 3-axis magnetometer (MasMag), and a hyperspectral infrared microscope (MicrOmega). Further, Hayabusa2 has a sampling device (SMP), and impact experiment devices which consist of a small carry-on impactor (SCI) and a deployable camera (DCAM3). The interdisciplinary research using the data from these onboard and lander’s instruments and the analyses of returned samples are the key to success of the mission.read more
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Hayabusa2 arrives at the carbonaceous asteroid 162173 Ryugu—A spinning top–shaped rubble pile
Sei-ichiro Watanabe,Sei-ichiro Watanabe,Masatoshi Hirabayashi,Naru Hirata,Na. Hirata,Rina Noguchi,Yuri Shimaki,H. Ikeda,Eri Tatsumi,Makoto Yoshikawa,Makoto Yoshikawa,Shota Kikuchi,Hikaru Yabuta,Tomoki Nakamura,Shogo Tachibana,Shogo Tachibana,Yoshiaki Ishihara,Tomokatsu Morota,Kohei Kitazato,Naoya Sakatani,Koji Matsumoto,Koji Wada,Hiroki Senshu,C. Honda,Tatsuhiro Michikami,Hiroshi Takeuchi,Hiroshi Takeuchi,Toru Kouyama,R. Honda,Shingo Kameda,Tetsuharu Fuse,Hideaki Miyamoto,Goro Komatsu,S. Sugita,Tatsuaki Okada,Tatsuaki Okada,Noriyuki Namiki,Masahiko Arakawa,Masateru Ishiguro,Masanao Abe,Masanao Abe,Robert Gaskell,Eric Palmer,Olivier S. Barnouin,Patrick Michel,A. S. French,Jay W. McMahon,Daniel J. Scheeres,Paul A. Abell,Yukio Yamamoto,Yukio Yamamoto,Satoshi Tanaka,Satoshi Tanaka,Kei Shirai,Moe Matsuoka,Manabu Yamada,Y. Yokota,Y. Yokota,H. Suzuki,Kosuke Yoshioka,Yuichiro Cho,Naoki Nishikawa,T. Sugiyama,Hideaki Kikuchi,Ryodo Hemmi,Tomohiro Yamaguchi,Naoko Ogawa,Go Ono,Yuya Mimasu,Kent Yoshikawa,T. Takahashi,Yuto Takei,Atsushi Fujii,Chikako Hirose,Takahiro Iwata,Takahiro Iwata,Masahiro Hayakawa,Satoshi Hosoda,Osamu Mori,Hirotaka Sawada,Takanobu Shimada,Stefania Soldini,Hajime Yano,Hajime Yano,Ryudo Tsukizaki,M. Ozaki,M. Ozaki,Yuichi Iijima,K. Ogawa,Masaki Fujimoto,T. M. Ho,Aurelie Moussi,Ralf Jaumann,J. P. Bibring,Christian Krause,Fuyuto Terui,Takanao Saiki,Satoru Nakazawa,Yoshiyuki Tsuda,Yoshiyuki Tsuda +99 more
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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European component of the AIDA mission to a binary asteroid: Characterization and interpretation of the impact of the DART mission
Patrick Michel,Michael Kueppers,Holger Sierks,Ian Carnelli,Andy F. Cheng,Karim Mellab,Mikael Granvik,Antti Kestilä,Tomas Kohout,Karri Muinonen,Antti Näsilä,Antti Penttilä,Tuomas Tikka,Paolo Tortora,Valérie Ciarletti,Alain Herique,Naomi Murdoch,Erik Asphaug,Andrew S. Rivkin,Olivier S. Barnouin,Adriano Campo Bagatin,Petr Pravec,Derek C. Richardson,Stephen R. Schwartz,Kleomenis Tsiganis,Stephan Ulamec,Özgür Karatekin +26 more
TL;DR: Hera will investigate the smallest asteroid visited so far, providing a unique opportunity to shed light on the role cohesion and Van der Waals forces may play in the formation and resulting internal structure of such small bodies.
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Low thermal conductivity boulder with high porosity identified on C-type asteroid (162173) Ryugu
Matthias Grott,Jörg Knollenberg,Maximilian Hamm,Kazunori Ogawa,Ralf Jaumann,Katharina A. Otto,Marco Delbo,Patrick Michel,Jens Biele,Wladimir Neumann,Martin Knapmeyer,Ekkehard Kührt,Hiroki Senshu,Tatsuaki Okada,Jörn Helbert,Alessandro Maturilli,Nils Müller,Axel Hagermann,Naoya Sakatani,Satoshi Tanaka,Takehiko Arai,Stefano Mottola,Shogo Tachibana,Ivanka Pelivan,Ivanka Pelivan,Line Drube,Jean-Baptiste Vincent,Hajime Yano,C. Pilorget,K-D Matz,Nicole Schmitz,Alexander Koncz,Stefan Schröder,Frank Trauthan,Markus Schlotterer,Christian Krause,Tra-Mi Ho,Aurelie Moussi-Soffys +37 more
TL;DR: In this article, in situ thermal infrared observations of a boulder on the C-type asteroid Ryugu were reported, indicating high boulder porosities as well as a low tensile strength in the few hundred kilopascal range.
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Sample collection from asteroid (162173) Ryugu by Hayabusa2: Implications for surface evolution
Tomokatsu Morota,Tomokatsu Morota,Seiji Sugita,Seiji Sugita,Yasuo Cho,Masanori Kanamaru,Eri Tatsumi,Eri Tatsumi,Eri Tatsumi,Naoya Sakatani,Rie Honda,Naru Hirata,Hiroshi Kikuchi,Manabu Yamada,Yasuhiro Yokota,Yasuhiro Yokota,Shingo Kameda,Moe Matsuoka,Hirotaka Sawada,C. Honda,Toru Kouyama,Kazunori Ogawa,Kazunori Ogawa,H. Suzuki,Kosuke Yoshioka,Masahiro Hayakawa,Masatoshi Hirabayashi,Hirdy Miyamoto,Hirdy Miyamoto,Tatsuhiro Michikami,Takahiro Hiroi,Ryodo Hemmi,Olivier S. Barnouin,Carolyn M. Ernst,Kohei Kitazato,Tomoki Nakamura,Lucie Riu,Hiroki Senshu,Hiroshi Kobayashi,Sono Sasaki,Goro Komatsu,Naoya Tanabe,Y. Fujii,T. Irie,M. Suemitsu,N. Takaki,C. Sugimoto,Koki Yumoto,M. Ishida,H. Kato,Keiichi Moroi,Deborah L. Domingue,P. Michel,C. Pilorget,Takahiro Iwata,Takahiro Iwata,Masanao Abe,Masanao Abe,Makiko Ohtake,Makiko Ohtake,Yusuke Nakauchi,Kohji Tsumura,Kohji Tsumura,Hikaru Yabuta,Yoshiaki Ishihara,Rina Noguchi,Koji Matsumoto,Akira Miura,Akira Miura,Noriyuki Namiki,Shogo Tachibana,Shogo Tachibana,Masahiko Arakawa,H. Ikeda,Koji Wada,Takahide Mizuno,Takahide Mizuno,Chikako Hirose,Satoshi Hosoda,Osamu Mori,Takanobu Shimada,Stefania Soldini,Stefania Soldini,Ryudo Tsukizaki,Hajime Yano,Hajime Yano,M. Ozaki,M. Ozaki,Hiroshi Takeuchi,Hiroshi Takeuchi,Yukio Yamamoto,Yukio Yamamoto,Tatsuaki Okada,Tatsuaki Okada,Yuri Shimaki,Kei Shirai,Yuichi Iijima,Hirotomo Noda,Shota Kikuchi,Tomohiro Yamaguchi,Naoko Ogawa,Go Ono,Yuya Mimasu,Kent Yoshikawa,T. Takahashi,Yuto Takei,Atsushi Fujii,Satoru Nakazawa,Fuyuto Terui,Satoshi Tanaka,Satoshi Tanaka,Makoto Yoshikawa,Makoto Yoshikawa,Takanao Saiki,Sei-ichiro Watanabe,Sei-ichiro Watanabe,Yuichi Tsuda,Yuichi Tsuda +117 more
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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Images from the surface of asteroid Ryugu show rocks similar to carbonaceous chondrite meteorites
Ralf Jaumann,Ralf Jaumann,Nicole Schmitz,T. M. Ho,Stefan Schröder,Katharina A. Otto,Katrin Stephan,Stephan Elgner,Katrin Krohn,F. Preusker,Frank Scholten,Jens Biele,S. Ulamec,Christian Krause,Seiji Sugita,Klaus-Dieter Matz,T. Roatsch,R. Parekh,R. Parekh,Stefano Mottola,Matthias Grott,Patrick Michel,Frank Trauthan,A. Koncz,Harald Michaelis,Caroline Lange,J. T. Grundmann,Michael Maibaum,Kaname Sasaki,Friederike Wolff,Josef Reill,Aurelie Moussi-Soffys,Laurence Lorda,Wladimir Neumann,J.-B. Vincent,Roland Wagner,Jean-Pierre Bibring,Shingo Kameda,Hajime Yano,Sei-ichiro Watanabe,Sei-ichiro Watanabe,Makoto Yoshikawa,Yoshiyuki Tsuda,T. Okada,Tetsuo Yoshimitsu,Yuya Mimasu,Takanao Saiki,Hikaru Yabuta,Heike Rauer,Heike Rauer,R. Honda,Tomokatsu Morota,Y. Yokota,Toru Kouyama +53 more
TL;DR: Images from the Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout lander show that rocks on asteroid Ryugu are similar to carbonaceous chondrite meteorites, and close-up images of a rock reveal a dark matrix with small, bright, spectrally different inclusions, implying that it did not experience extensive aqueous alteration.
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