TY - JOUR
T1 - Hayabusa-returned sample curation in the planetary material sample curation facility of JAXA
AU - Yada, Toru
AU - Fujimura, Akio
AU - Abe, Masanao
AU - Nakamura, Tomoki
AU - Noguchi, Takaaki
AU - Okazaki, Ryuji
AU - Nagao, Keisuke
AU - Ishibashi, Yukihiro
AU - Shirai, Kei
AU - Zolensky, Michael E.
AU - Sandford, Scott
AU - Okada, Tatsuaki
AU - Uesugi, Masayuki
AU - Karouji, Yuzuru
AU - Ogawa, Maho
AU - Yakame, Shogo
AU - Ueno, Munetaka
AU - Mukai, Toshifumi
AU - Yoshikawa, Makoto
AU - Kawaguchi, Junichiro
PY - 2014/2
Y1 - 2014/2
N2 - The Planetary Material Sample Curation Facility of JAXA (PMSCF/JAXA) was established in Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan, to curate planetary material samples returned from space in conditions of minimum terrestrial contaminants. The performances for the curation of Hayabusa-returned samples had been checked with a series of comprehensive tests and rehearsals. After the Hayabusa spacecraft had accomplished a round-trip flight to asteroid 25143 Itokawa and returned its reentry capsule to the Earth in June 2010, the reentry capsule was brought back to the PMSCF/JAXA and was put to a series of processes to extract recovered samples from Itokawa. The particles recovered from the sample catcher were analyzed by electron microscope, given their ID, grouped into four categories, and preserved in dimples on quartz slide glasses. Some fraction of them has been distributed for initial analyses at NASA, and will be distributed for international announcement of opportunity (AO), but a certain fraction of them will be preserved in vacuum for future analyses.
AB - The Planetary Material Sample Curation Facility of JAXA (PMSCF/JAXA) was established in Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan, to curate planetary material samples returned from space in conditions of minimum terrestrial contaminants. The performances for the curation of Hayabusa-returned samples had been checked with a series of comprehensive tests and rehearsals. After the Hayabusa spacecraft had accomplished a round-trip flight to asteroid 25143 Itokawa and returned its reentry capsule to the Earth in June 2010, the reentry capsule was brought back to the PMSCF/JAXA and was put to a series of processes to extract recovered samples from Itokawa. The particles recovered from the sample catcher were analyzed by electron microscope, given their ID, grouped into four categories, and preserved in dimples on quartz slide glasses. Some fraction of them has been distributed for initial analyses at NASA, and will be distributed for international announcement of opportunity (AO), but a certain fraction of them will be preserved in vacuum for future analyses.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84893847591&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/maps.12027
DO - 10.1111/maps.12027
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84893847591
SN - 1086-9379
VL - 49
SP - 135
EP - 153
JO - Meteoritics and Planetary Science
JF - Meteoritics and Planetary Science
IS - 2
ER -