Regolith migration and sorting on asteroid Itokawa

Science

Volumn 316, Issue 5827, 2007, Pages 1011-1014

  Miyamoto, Hideaki ^a,b   Yano, Hajime ^c   Scheeres, Daniel J ^d   Abe, Shinsuke ^e   Barnouin Jha, Olivier ^f   Cheng, Andrew F ^f   Demura, Hirohide ^g   Gaskell, Robert W ^h   Hirata, Naru ^g   Ishiguro, Masateru ⁱ   Michikami, Tatsuhiro ^j   Nakamura, Akiko M ^e   Nakamura, Ryosuke ^k   Saito, Jun ^b,l   Sasaki, Sho ^m  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF AIZU   (Japan)

^h CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^j FUKUSHIMA NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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

^l TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^m NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID; GRAVEL; REGOLITH; SATELLITE MISSION; SORTING; VIBRATION;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ASTEROID BODY; ASTRONOMY; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ENERGY; FRICTION; MICROGRAVITY; MIGRATION; MORPHOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; ROTATION; SPACE; VELOCITY; VIBRATION;

EID: 34249038092     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1134390     Document Type: Article

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