Methods and tools for handling, transportation, weighing, and pelletization applied to the initial analysis of volatile components in the Hayabusa2 samples

Abstract The Hayabusa2 spacecraft succeeded in sampling and returning materials from the C-type, near-Earth asteroid (162173) Ryugu. As part of the Hayabusa2 Initial Analyses, chemical and isotopic compositions of volatile species were measured. The samples analyzed were grains of about 1 mm in diam...

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Main Authors: Ryuji Okazaki, Shinji Yamanouchi, Kazuhiko Shimada, Atsushi Baba, Fumio Kitajima, Toru Yada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2022-12-01
Series:Earth, Planets and Space
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-022-01747-7