Near-Earth asteroid (NEA) 162173 (1999 JU3) (hereafter 1999 JU3) is the primary target of JAXA's Hayabusa 2 mission and also a backup target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, not only because of its accessibility but also because it would be the first C-type asteroid for exploration missions. Knowing the information about spin status, such as...
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April 2013 (v1)PublicationUploaded on: December 2, 2022
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October 27, 2022 (v1)Journal article
Abstract The surfaces of airless bodies like asteroids in the solar system are known to be affected by space weathering. Experiments simulating space weathering are essential for studying the effects of this process on meteorite samples, but the problem is that the time spent to reproduce space weathering in these experiments is billions of...
Uploaded on: December 3, 2022