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Geophysical Research Letters | 2003

The first detection of water absorption on a D type asteroid

Ai Kanno; Takahiro Hiroi; Ryosuke Nakamura; Masanao Abe; Masateru Ishiguro; Sunao Hasegawa; Seidai Miyasaka; Tomohiko Sekiguchi; Hiroshi Terada; George Igarashi

[1]xa0The D type asteroids are among the darkest objects known in our solar system. Here, we present infrared spectra of one of the main-belt D type asteroids, 773 Irmintraud. In contrast to previous observations of D type asteroids, we found a gap of reflectance around 3 μm in wavelength. The 3 μm gap is one of the spectral signatures of OH or H2O as water ice or in hydrous minerals, which had formed in the processes of aqueous alteration in the early solar system. We suggest that D type asteroids, which are all the while considered as unaltered primitive material, could be aqueously altered. Our data do support the presence of water on a compositionally primitive D type asteroid.


Archive | 2009

BRz' Phase Function of Asteroid 4 Vesta During the 2006 Opposition

Sunao Hasegawa; Seidai Miyasaka; Noritaka Tokimasa; Akito Sogame; Mansur A. Ibrahimov; Fumi Yoshida; Masanao Abe; Daisuke Kuroda


Archive | 2006

Global Properties of 25143 Itokawa Observed by Hayabusa

Akihiko Fujiwara; Junichiro Kawaguchi; K. Uesugi; D. K. Yeomans; J. Saito; Masanao Abe; Toshiharu Mukai; Masaru Kato; Takashi Okada; Masatoshi Yoshikawa; Hajime Yano; Hirohide Demura; D. Scheers; Robert W. Gaskell; O. S. Barnouin-Jha; Andrew F. Cheng; Hiroyuki Miyamoto; Naru Hirata; Rumi Nakamura; Sho Sasaki; Akiko M. Nakamura


Archive | 2005

Impact Cratering Experiments in Microgravity Environment

Yasuhiko Takagi; Sunao Hasegawa; Hajime Yano; S. Yamamoto; Satoshi Sugita; K. Teramoto; Chikatoshi Honda; Kaoru Kurosawa; T. Nakada; Masanao Abe; Akihiko Fujiwara


Archive | 2012

The Shock State of Itokawa Sample

Michael E. Zolensky; Tomoki Nakamura; Takashi Mikouchi; Kenji Hagiya; Kazumasa Ohsumi; Masahiko Tanaka; Makoto Kimura; Akira Tsuchiyama; Aiko Nakato; Toshihiro Ogami; Hatsumi Ishida; Masayuki Uesugi; Toru Yada; Kei Shirai; Akio Fujimura; Ryuji Okazaki; Yukihiro Ishibashi; Masanao Abe; Tatsuaki Okada; Munetaka Ueno; Toshinori Mukai; Makoto Yoshikawa; Junichiro Kawaguchi


Archive | 2004

Photometric Observations 2001-2004 and Modelling of (25143) Itokawa

Mikko Kaasalainen; Masanao Abe; Jeff Byron; Marco Delbo; Mario Di Martino; David J. Higgins; Kouhei Kitazato; Stephen Christopher Lowry; Gianluca de Masi; Michael Mueller; Jyri Näränen; David Vokrouhlicky; Brian D. Warner; Paul R. Weissman; J.W. Young


Archive | 2014

A Nature of Particles in the Hayabusa Sample Catcher and Contamination Controls for Hayabusa 2 Sample Containers

達 矢田; 正真 安部; 真之 上椙; 譲 唐牛; 和也 熊谷; 渉 佐竹; 之宏 石橋; 亜衣子 中藤; 達明 岡田; Toru Yada; Masanao Abe; Masayuki Uesugi; Yuzuru Karouji; Kazuya Kumagai; W. Satake; Yukihiro Ishibashi; Aiko Nakato; Tatsuaki Okada


Archive | 2010

Curation and Initial Analysis Readiness for Sample Returned by Hayabusa

Junichiro Kawaguchi; T. Mukai; Masanao Abe; Makoto Yoshikawa


Archive | 2007

Mapping of lunar topographic roughness by digital terrain model

Yasuhiro Yokota; J. Haruyama; Makiko Otake; Tsuneo Matsunaga; Chikatoshi Honda; T. Morota; Masanao Abe; Masaya Torii; Yoshiko Ogawa; Hirohide Demura; 横田 康弘; 春山 純一; 大竹 真紀子; 松永 恒雄; 本田 親寿; 諸田 智克; 安部 正真; 鳥居 雅也; 小川 佳子; 出村 裕英


Archive | 2006

Surface scattering property of asteroid Itokawa from NIRS observations of HAYABUSA mission

Kohei Kitazato; B. C. Clark; Masanao Abe; Shigeo Abe; Yasuhiko Takagi; Takahiro Hiroi

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Toru Yada

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

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Kohei Kitazato

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

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Tatsuaki Okada

Planetary Science Institute

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Masayuki Uesugi

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

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Sunao Hasegawa

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

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Yuzuru Karouji

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

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Yukihiro Ishibashi

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

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