Hayabusa2: Scientific importance of samples returned from C-type near-Earth asteroid (162173) 1999 JU3

Tachibana, Shogo; Abe, Masanao; Arakawa, Masahiko; Fujimoto, M.; Iijima, Y.; Ishiguro, Masateru; Kitazato, K.; Kobayashi, N.; Namiki, Noriyuki; Okada, Tatsuaki; Okazaki, Ryuji; Sawada, Hirotaka; Sugita, Seiji; Takano, Yoshinori; Tanaka, Satoshi; Watanabe, Sei‐ichiro; Yoshikawa, Makoto; Kuninaka, Hitoshi; HAYABUSA2 PROJECT TEAM, THE

doi:10.2343/geochemj.2.0350

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Hayabusa2: Scientific importance of samples returned from C-type near-Earth asteroid (162173) 1999 JU3

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Authors:

Shogo Tachibana

Masanao Abe

Masahiko Arakawa

Abstract

Hayabusa2 is an asteroid exploration mission to return surface samples of a near-Earth C-type asteroid (162173) 1999 JU3. Because asteroids are the evolved remnants of planetesimals that were the building blocks of planets, detailed observation by a spacecraft and analysis of the returned samples wi...

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Asteroid

Astrobiology

Solar System

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