On 25 November 2005 the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Hayabusa spacecraft made contact with the asteroid 25143 Itokawa and collected a small amount of regolith dust from Muses Sea region of smooth terrain [1]. Even though optimal sample collection did not occur, the spacecraft returned to Earth with more than 10,000 grains ranging in the size from 30-180 microns [2]. These grains represent the only collection of pristine material returned from an asteroid by a spacecraft. As part of the joint agreement between JAXA and NASA for the mission, 10% of the Hayabusa grains will be transferred to NASA for parallel curation and allocation, the first 15 of which arrived in December 2011. In order to properly receive and process these samples, a new curation facility was developed at Johnson Space Center (JSC).


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    Titel :

    Developing the New Hayabusa Curation Facility at Johnson Space Center


    Beteiligte:
    De Gregorio, B. T. (Autor:in) / Zolensky, M. E. (Autor:in) / Bastien, R. (Autor:in) / McCann, B. (Autor:in) / Frank, D. R. (Autor:in) / Warren, J. L. (Autor:in) / Allen, C. C. (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    Lunar and Planetary Science Conference ; 2012 ; The Woodlands, TX, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2012-01-01


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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