International Astronautical Federation, IAF World Space AwardHayabusa2 Team
May 2021
Space Ops, Outstanding Manuscript for Space Ops2021,MASCOT – a Mobile Lander on-board Hayabusa2 Spacecraft – Operations on RyuguHayabusa2 MASCOT Team (C. Krause U. Auster J.P. Bibring J. Biele C. Cenac-Morthe F. Cordero B. Cozzoni C. Dudal D. Embacher C. Fantinati H.-H. Fischer K.H. Glassmeier D. Granena M. Grott J. T. Grundmann V. Hamm D. Hercik T.-M. Ho R. Jaumann K. Kayal J. Knollenberg O. Küchemann C. Lange L. Lorda M. Maibaum D. May Y. Mimasu A. Moussi T. Okada J. Reill T. Saiki K. Sasaki M. Schlotterer N. Schmitz N. Toth Y. Tsuda S. Ulamec T. Yoshimitsu S. Watanabe F. Wolff the MASCOT Team)
Science (New York, N.Y.) 379(6634) eabn9057 Feb 2023 [Refereed]
Samples of the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu were collected and brought to Earth by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft. We investigated the macromolecular organic matter in Ryugu samples and found that it contains aromatic and aliphatic carbon, keton...
T. Nakamura   M. Matsumoto   K. Amano   Y. Enokido   M. E. Zolensky   T. Mikouchi   H. Genda   S. Tanaka   M. Y. Zolotov   K. Kurosawa   S. Wakita   R. Hyodo   H. Nagano   D. Nakashima   Y. Takahashi   Y. Fujioka   M. Kikuiri   E. Kagawa   M. Matsuoka   A. J. Brearley   A. Tsuchiyama   M. Uesugi   J. Matsuno   Y. Kimura   M. Sato   R. E. Milliken   E. Tatsumi   S. Sugita   T. Hiroi   K. Kitazato   D. Brownlee   D. J. Joswiak   M. Takahashi   K. Ninomiya   T. Takahashi   T. Osawa   K. Terada   F. E. Brenker   B. J. Tkalcec   L. Vincze   R. Brunetto   A. Aléon-Toppani   Q. H.S. Chan   M. Roskosz   J. C. Viennet   P. Beck   E. E. Alp   T. Michikami   Y. Nagaashi   T. Tsuji   Y. Ino   J. Martinez   J. Han   A. Dolocan   R. J. Bodnar   M. Tanaka   H. Yoshida   K. Sugiyama   A. J. King   K. Fukushi   H. Suga   S. Yamashita   T. Kawai   K. Inoue   A. Nakato   T. Noguchi   F. Vilas   A. R. Hendrix   C. Jaramillo-Correa   D. L. Domingue   G. Dominguez   Z. Gainsforth   C. Engrand   J. Duprat   S. S. Russell   E. Bonato   C. Ma   T. Kawamoto   T. Wada   S. Watanabe   R. Endo   S. Enju   L. Riu   S. Rubino   P. Tack   S. Takeshita   Y. Takeichi   A. Takeuchi   A. Takigawa   D. Takir   T. Tanigaki   A. Taniguchi   K. Tsukamoto   T. Yagi   S. Yamada   K. Yamamoto   Y. Yamashita   M. Yasutake   K. Uesugi   I. Umegaki   
Science (New York, N.Y.) 379(6634) eabn8671 Feb 2023 [Refereed]
Samples of the carbonaceous asteroid Ryugu were brought to Earth by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft. We analyzed 17 Ryugu samples measuring 1 to 8 millimeters. Carbon dioxide-bearing water inclusions are present within a pyrrhotite crystal, indicating th...
Science (New York, N.Y.) 379(6634) eabn9033 Feb 2023 [Refereed]
The Hayabusa2 spacecraft collected samples from the surface of the carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid (162173) Ryugu and brought them to Earth. The samples were expected to contain organic molecules, which record processes that occurred in the early...
Nature Communications 14(1) 532-532 Feb 2023 [Refereed]
Abstract
Chondrule-like objects and Ca-Al-rich inclusions (CAIs) are discovered in the retuned samples from asteroid Ryugu. Here we report results of oxygen isotope, mineralogical, and compositional analysis of the chondrule-like objects and CAIs...
Takaaki Noguchi   Toru Matsumoto   Akira Miyake   Yohei Igami   Mitsutaka Haruta   Hikaru Saito   Satoshi Hata   Yusuke Seto   Masaaki Miyahara   Naotaka Tomioka   Hope A. Ishii   John P. Bradley   Kenta K. Ohtaki   Elena Dobrică   Hugues Leroux   Corentin Le Guillou   Damien Jacob   Francisco de la Peña   Sylvain Laforet   Maya Marinova   Falko Langenhorst   Dennis Harries   Pierre Beck   Thi H.V. Phan   Rolando Rebois   Neyda M. Abreu   Jennifer Gray   Thomas Zega   Pierre M. Zanetta   Michelle S. Thompson   Rhonda Stroud   Kate Burgess   Brittany A. Cymes   John C. Bridges   Leon Hicks   Martin R. Lee   Luke Daly   Phil A. Bland   Michael E. Zolensky   David R. Frank   James Martinez   Akira Tsuchiyama   Masahiro Yasutake   Junya Matsuno   Shota Okumura   Itaru Mitsukawa   Kentaro Uesugi   Masayuki Uesugi   Akihisa Takeuchi   Mingqi Sun   Satomi Enju   Aki Takigawa   Tatsuhiro Michikami   Tomoki Nakamura   Megumi Matsumoto   Yusuke Nakauchi   Masanao Abe   Masahiko Arakawa   Atsushi Fujii   Masahiko Hayakawa   Naru Hirata   Naoyuki Hirata   Rie Honda   Chikatoshi Honda   Satoshi Hosoda   Yu ichi Iijima   Hitoshi Ikeda   Masateru Ishiguro   Yoshiaki Ishihara   Takahiro Iwata   Kousuke Kawahara   Shota Kikuchi   Kohei Kitazato   Koji Matsumoto   Moe Matsuoka   Yuya Mimasu   Akira Miura   Tomokatsu Morota   Satoru Nakazawa   Noriyuki Namiki   Hirotomo Noda   Rina Noguchi   Naoko Ogawa   Kazunori Ogawa   Tatsuaki Okada   Chisato Okamoto   Go Ono   Masanobu Ozaki   Takanao Saiki   Naoya Sakatani   Hirotaka Sawada   Hiroki Senshu   Yuri Shimaki   Kei Shirai   Seiji Sugita   Yuto Takei   Hiroshi Takeuchi   Satoshi Tanaka   Eri Tatsumi   Fuyuto Terui   
Nature Astronomy 7(2) 170-181 Feb 2023 [Refereed]
Without a protective atmosphere, space-exposed surfaces of airless Solar System bodies gradually experience an alteration in composition, structure and optical properties through a collective process called space weathering. The return of samples ...
Europlanet Science Congress 2020 EPSC2020-12 May 2024 [Invited]
<p>Thermal imaging, or thermography, has revealed the surface physical state of the C-type near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu (Okada et al., 2020). The asteroid is the target body of JAXA Hayabsua2 asteroid sample return mission, and i...
B. E. Clark   A. Sen   X. D. Zou   D. N. DellaGiustina   S. Sugita   N. Sakatani   M. Thompson   D. Trang   E. Tatsumi   M. A. Barucci   M. Barker   H. Campins   T. Morota   C. Lantz   A. R. Hendrix   F. Vilas   L. Keller   V. E. Hamilton   K. Kitazato   S. Sasaki   M. Matsuoka   T. Nakamura   A. Praet   S. M. Ferrone   T. Hiroi   H. H. Kaplan   W. F. Bottke   J. Y. Li   L. Le Corre   J. L. Molaro   R. L. Ballouz   C. W. Hergenrother   B. Rizk   K. N. Burke   C. A. Bennett   D. R. Golish   E. S. Howell   K. Becker   A. J. Ryan   J. P. Emery   S. Fornasier   A. A. Simon   D. C. Reuter   L. F. Lim   G. Poggiali   P. Michel   M. Delbo   O. S. Barnouin   E. R. Jawin   M. Pajola   L. Riu   T. Okada   J. D.P. Deshapriya   J. R. Brucato   R. P. Binzel   D. S. Lauretta   
Icarus 400 Aug 2023
This paper summarizes the evidence for the optical effects of space weathering, as well as the properties of the surface that control optical changes, on asteroid (101955) Bennu. First, we set the stage by briefly reviewing what was known about sp...
Solar System Exploration for Aqua-planetologyJapan Society for the Promotion of Science: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area)
Project Year: Jun 2017 - Mar 2022
Thermal inertia measurements of airless planetary surface and its applications to planetary remote sensingJapan Society for the Promotion of Science: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)Okada Tatsuaki Tanaka Satoshi Fukuhara Tetsuya Taguchi Makoto Arai Takehiko Sakatani Naoya Shimaki Yuri Senshu Hiroki Demura Hirohide Helbert Jorn Mueller Thomas G.