Japanese Hayabusa2 spacecraft has successfully carried out an impact experiment using a small carry-on impactor (SCI) on an asteroid (162173) Ryugu. We examine the size distribution of particles inside and outside an artificial impact cr...
Astronomy & Astrophysics 666 A164-A164 2022年10月
Context. After landing on C-type asteroid Ryugu, MASCOT imaged brightly colored, submillimeter-sized inclusions in a small rock. Hayabusa2 successfully returned a sample of small particles from the surface of Ryugu, but none of these appear to har...
Hayabusa2 took on the challenge of collecting fresh subsurface samples from asteroid (162173) Ryugu during its second touchdown operation. For this ambitious goal, the spacecraft conducted artificial cratering by using a small carry-on impactor (S...
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THERMOPHYSICS 43(7) 2022年7月
It is important to know the thermophysical properties (thermal diffusivity, specific heat, etc.) for meteorites and small samples from asteroids to understand the thermal history of the solar system origin. However, there is no research on thermop...
Over a broad size range, the shapes of impact fragments from catastrophic disruptions are distributed around the mean axial ratio 2: root 2: 1, irrespective of experimental conditions and target materials. Although most blocks on asteroids are lik...
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Icarus 400 2023年8月
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...