Detailed images of asteroid 25143 Itokawa from Hayabusa

Science

Volumn 312, Issue 5778, 2006, Pages 1341-1344

  Saito, J ^a,b   Miyamoto, H ^c,d   Nakamura, R ^e   Ishiguro, M ^a   Michikami, T ^f   Nakamura, A M ^g   Demura, H ^h   Sasaki, S ⁱ   Hirata, N ^g,h   Honda, C ^a   Yamamoto, A ^j   Yokota, Y ^a   Fuse, T ⁱ   Yoshida, F ⁱ   Tholen, D J ^k   Gaskell, R W ^l   Hashimoto, T ^a   Kubota, T ^a   Higuchi, Y ^m   Nakamura, T ⁱ   Smith, P ^m   Hiraoka, K ^g   Honda, T ^g   Kobayashi, S ^h   Furuya, M ^h   Matsumoto, N ^h   Nemoto, E ^h   Yukishita, A ^h   Kitazato, K ^a   Dermawan, B ⁿ   Sogame, A ^b   Terazono, J ^o   Shinohara, C ^m   Akiyama, H ^p   more..

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^f FUKUSHIMA NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^g KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF AIZU   (Japan)

ⁱ NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^j REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY CENTER OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^k UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^l CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

ⁿ BANDUNG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Indonesia)

^o JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^p AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; CAMERAS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SPACECRAFT; SURFACES;

HAYABUSA SPACECRAFT; RUBBLE-PILE STRUCTURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; UNCLEAR MORPHOLOGIES;

SPACE RESEARCH;

ASTEROID; MORPHOLOGY; VIDEOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; JAPAN; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID; SPACE FLIGHT; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 33744786807     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1125722     Document Type: Article

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28. We thank the mission operation and spacecraft team of the Hayabusa project at ISAS/JAXA for their efforts that led to Hayabusa being the first Japanese spacecraft to rendezvous with and land on the asteroid. This research was supported by ISAS/JAXA, NASA, Kobe University through "The 21st Century Center of Excellence Program of the Origin and Evolution of Planetary Systems," and the University of Aizu.