The Hayabusa spacecraft was launched on May 9, 2003 and reached an asteroid Itokawa (25143 Itokawa) in September 2005. After accomplishing several scientific observations, the spacecraft tried to collect the surface material of Itokawa by touching down to the asteroid in November. The spacecraft was then navigated for the earth. In encountering several difficulties, Hayabusa finally returned to the earth on June 12, 2010 and the entry capsule was successfully recovered. Initially, a g-scale of solid material was aimed to be captured into the entry capsule. Although the sample collection was not perfectly performed, it was hoped that some extraterrestrial material was stored into the capsule. After careful and extensive examination, more than 1500 particles were recognized visibly by microscopes, most of which were eventually judged to be extraterrestrial, highly probably originated from Itokawa [1]. Several years before the launching of the Hayabusa spacecraft, the initial analysis team was officially formed under the selection panel at ISAS. As a member of this team, we have been preparing for the initial inspection of the returned material from many scientific viewpoints [2]. Once the recovered material had been confirmed to be much less than 1 g, a scheme for the initial analysis was updated accordingly [3]. In this study, we aim to analyze tiny single grains by instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA). As the initial analysis is to be started in mid-January, 2011, some progress for the initial analysis using INAA is described here. Analytical procedure


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    Titel :

    Neutron Activation Analysis of Single Grains Recovered by the Hayabusa Spacecraft


    Beteiligte:
    Ebihara, M. (Autor:in) / Sekimoto, S. (Autor:in) / Hamajima, Y. (Autor:in) / Yamamoto, M. (Autor:in) / Kumagai, K. (Autor:in) / Oura, Y. (Autor:in) / Shirai, N. (Autor:in) / Ireland. T. R. (Autor:in) / Kitajima, F. (Autor:in) / Nagao, K. (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference ; 2011 ; The Woodlands, TX, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2011-01-01


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :



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