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Science of solar system materials examined from Hayabusa and future missions

Edited by: Tatsuaki Okada, Michael E. Zolensky, Trevor Ireland, Toru Yada

This special issue originates from the international symposium “Hayabusa 2013 Symposium of solar system materials” which was held on Oct. 2013 at the Sagamihara Campus of JAXA, Japan.

The main topics of this special issue, as well as those of the symposium, are the findings from Hayabusa sample analysis, new insights from solar system material analysis, perspectives of solar system evolution by theoretical, observational and experimental studies, technique and methodology of sample analysis, prospects for future sample return missions, and other related studies.

Publication started: 15 July 2014
Publication finished: 26 July 2015

  1. Three carbonaceous category 3 particles (RA-QD02-0180, RB-QD04-0037-01, and RB-QD04-0047-02) returned in the sample catcher from the Hayabusa spacecraft were analyzed by time of flight-secondary ion mass spect...

    Authors: Hiroshi Naraoka, Dan Aoki, Kazuhiko Fukushima, Masayuki Uesugi, Motoo Ito, Fumio Kitajima, Hajime Mita, Hikaru Yabuta, Yoshinori Takano, Toru Yada, Yukihiro Ishibashi, Yuzuru Karouji, Takaaki Okada and Masanao Abe
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2015 67:67
  2. Three category 3 (organic) particles (RB-QD04-0001, RB-QD04-0047-02, and RA-QD02-0120) and so-called ‘white object’ found in the sample container have been examined by micro-Raman and infrared (IR) spectroscop...

    Authors: Fumio Kitajima, Masayuki Uesugi, Yuzuru Karouji, Yukihiro Ishibashi, Toru Yada, Hiroshi Naraoka, Masanao Abe, Akio Fujimura, Motoo Ito, Hikaru Yabuta, Hajime Mita, Yoshinori Takano and Tatsuaki Okada
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2015 67:20
  3. The data from the analysis of samples returned by Hayabusa from asteroid 25143 Itokawa are used to constrain the preaccretion history, the geological activity that occurred after accretion, and the dynamical h...

    Authors: Harold C Connolly Jr, Dante S Lauretta, Kevin J Walsh, Shogo Tachibana and William F Bottke Jr
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2015 67:12
  4. Mineralogy of three LL chondrites including Y-981971, Y-793214, and Y-790782 indicates that granulitic materials may have been formed in some depth of their parent body by an impact event. This process of high...

    Authors: Hiroshi Takeda, Hiroshi Nagaoka, Akira Yamaguchi, Yuzuru Karouji and Yuuki Yazawa
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2015 67:5
  5. We report the results of detailed mineralogical investigations by analytical scanning and transmission electron microscopy of particle RA-QD02-0115 recovered from the surface of asteroid 25143 Itokawa. We divi...

    Authors: Dennis Harries and Falko Langenhorst
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:163
  6. Analyses with a scanning transmission x-ray microscope (STXM) using x-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy were applied for the molecular characterization of two kinds of carbonaceous partic...

    Authors: Hikaru Yabuta, Masayuki Uesugi, Hiroshi Naraoka, Motoo Ito, A L David Kilcoyne, Scott A Sandford, Fumio Kitajima, Hajime Mita, Yoshinori Takano, Toru Yada, Yuzuru Karouji, Yukihiro Ishibashi, Tatsuaki Okada and Masanao Abe
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:156
  7. Four Itokawa particles collected from the first touchdown site were mineralogically investigated by optical microscopy, micro-Raman (μ-Raman) spectrometry, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), electron micropro...

    Authors: Takaaki Noguchi, John C Bridges, Leon J Hicks, Steven J Gurman, Makoto Kimura, Takahito Hashimoto, Mitsuru Konno, John P Bradley, Ryuji Okazaki, Masayuki Uesugi, Toru Yada, Yuzuru Karouji, Masanao Abe, Tatsuaki Okada, Takuya Mitsunari, Tomoki Nakamura…
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:124
  8. We report here detailed analytical scanning and transmission electron microscopic investigations on an olivine-dominated dust particle (RB-QD04-0042) from the surface of asteroid 25143 Itokawa. The dust partic...

    Authors: Falko Langenhorst, Dennis Harries, Kilian Pollok and Peter A van Aken
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:118
  9. Preliminary results of the analyses of five carbonaceous materials (particle size of approximately 50 μm) from the Hayabusa spacecraft sample catcher, including their texture, chemistry, and chemical/isotopic ...

    Authors: Masayuki Uesugi, Hiroshi Naraoka, Motoo Ito, Hikaru Yabuta, Fumio Kitajima, Yoshinori Takano, Hajime Mita, Ichiro Ohnishi, Yoko Kebukawa, Toru Yada, Yuzuru Karouji, Yukihiro Ishibashi, Takaaki Okada and Masanao Abe
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:102
  10. Since isotopic ratios of H, C, and N are sensitive indicators for determining extraterrestrial organics, we have measured these isotopes of Hayabusa category 3 organic samples of RB-QD04-0047-02, RA-QD02-0120,...

    Authors: Motoo Ito, Masayuki Uesugi, Hiroshi Naraoka, Hikaru Yabuta, Fumio Kitajima, Hajime Mita, Yoshinori Takano, Yuzuru Karouji, Toru Yada, Yukihiro Ishibashi, Tatsuaki Okada and Masanao Abe
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:91
  11. Here we report microchemical and microstructural features indicative of space weathering in a particle returned from the surface of asteroid Itokawa by the Hayabusa mission. Space weathering features include p...

    Authors: Michelle S Thompson, Roy Christoffersen, Thomas J Zega and Lindsay P Keller
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:89
  12. We studied seven Itokawa particles provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as first International Announcement of Opportunity (AO) study mainly using electron and synchrotron radiation X-ray ...

    Authors: Takashi Mikouchi, Mutsumi Komatsu, Kenji Hagiya, Kazumasa Ohsumi, Michael E Zolensky, Viktor Hoffmann, James Martinez, Rupert Hochleitner, Melanie Kaliwoda, Yasuko Terada, Naoto Yagi, Masaki Takata, Wataru Satake, Yuya Aoyagi, Atsushi Takenouchi, Yuzuru Karouji…
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:82