EPS special issue "Science of solar system materials examined from Hayabusa and future missions" People

EPS special issue "Science of solar system materials examined from Hayabusa and future missions" People

"Earth, Planets and Space (EPS)" started working as an open access-style
journal under SpringerOpen this year.
The EPS special issue "Science of solar system materials examined from Hayabusa and future missions" will be published soon,
as the proceedings of the HAYABUSA 2013 symposium
<http://hayabusaao.isas.jaxa.jp/symposium/2013/program.html>,
papers of which are accessible now, as follows:

Mineralogy of four Itokawa particles collected from the first touchdown site
Takaaki Noguchi, John C Bridges, Leon J Hicks, Steven J Gurman, Makoto Kimura, Takahito Hashimoto, Mitsuru Konno, John P Bradley, Ryuji Okazaki, Masayuki Uesugi, Toru Yada, Yuzuru Karouji, Masanao Abe, Tatsuaki Okada, Takuya Mitsunari, Tomoki Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kagi
Earth, Planets and Space 2014, 66:124 (9 October 2014)
http://www.earth-planets-space.com/content/pdf/1880-5981-66-124.pdf

Mineralogy and defect microstructure of an olivine-dominated Itokawa dust
particle: evidence for shock metamorphism, collisional fragmentation, and LL
chondrite origin
Falko Langenhorst, Dennis Harries, Kilian Pollok, Peter A van Aken
Earth, Planets and Space 2014, 66:118 (17 September 2014)
http://www.earth-planets-space.com/content/pdf/1880-5981-66-118.pdf

Sequential analysis of carbonaceous materials in Hayabusa-returned samples
for the determination of their origin
Masayuki Uesugi, Hiroshi Naraoka, Motoo Ito, Hikaru Yabuta, Fumio Kitajima, Yoshinori Takano, Hajime Mita, Ichiro Ohnishi, Yoko Kebukawa, Toru Yada, Yuzuru Karouji, Yukihiro Ishibashi, Takaaki Okada, Masanao Abe
Earth, Planets and Space 2014, 66:102 (26 August 2014)
http://www.earth-planets-space.com/content/pdf/1880-5981-66-102.pdf

Microchemical and structural evidence for space weathering in soils from
asteroid Itokawa
Michelle S Thompson, Roy Christoffersen, Thomas J Zega, Lindsay P Keller
Earth, Planets and Space 2014, 66:89 (13 August 2014)
http://www.earth-planets-space.com/content/pdf/1880-5981-66-89.pdf

Mineralogy and crystallography of some Itokawa particles returned by the
Hayabusa asteroidal sample return mission
Takashi Mikouchi, Mutsumi Komatsu, Kenji Hagiya, Kazumasa Ohsumi, Michael E Zolensky, Viktor Hoffmann, James Martinez, Rupert Hochleitner, Melanie Kaliwoda, Yasuko Terada, Naoto Yagi, Masaki Takata, Wataru Satake, Yuya Aoyagi, Atsushi Takenouchi, Yuzuru Karouji, Masayuki Uesugi, Toru Yada
Earth, Planets and Space 2014, 66:82 (1 August 2014)
http://www.earth-planets-space.com/content/pdf/1880-5981-66-82.pdf

A transmission electron microscope study of Itokawa regolith grains
Lindsay P Keller, Eve L Berger
Earth, Planets and Space 2014, 66:71 (15 July 2014)
http://www.earth-planets-space.com/content/pdf/1880-5981-66-71.pdf

Robotic systems for the determination of the composition of solar system
materials by means of fireball spectroscopy
José M Madiedo
Earth, Planets and Space 2014, 66:70 (15 July 2014)
http://www.earth-planets-space.com/content/pdf/1880-5981-66-70.pdf

BTW, the HAYABUSA2014 symposium will be held on 4--5 December at JAXA/ISAS
Sagamihara, Japan.
http://hayabusaao.isas.jaxa.jp/symposium/

Katsu Ohtsuka

2014 The Year of "CERTAIN Uncertainty" ™; Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!

Meteor/Meteorite New 17NOV2010

Reader reports: 

Chincoteague Island, Virginia 17:00 EST 15NOV2010

Guest833 (guest):Saw green fireball above Chincoteague Island, Virginia right at sunset 17:00 EST 15NOV2010

Orange Beach,Alabama on October 8, 2010
Karen Harper: I saw a large brilliant slow moving green fireball move across the horizon in front of my car on a highway while driving from Birmingham to Orange Beach,Alabama on October 8, 2010 not long after dark. It was fantastically brilliant and unlike anything I've ever witnessed. It moved from my right to the left which would seemingly indicate it was moving from west to east. It was low on the horizon.

Baraboo, Wisconsin 6:15 a.m. November 5th, 2010

M. Bildsten writes, "I saw a Fireball on November 5th at 6:15 a.m. while walking my dog.  It was a low Fireball about 4 stories directly over my head and slow moving about 2- 3 seconds I counted while it flew over my head.  I heard it before I saw it that is what made me look up.  It sounded like a loud boomerang.  My friend across town said she saw a rainbow of colors and was much higher.  I'm not sure if she saw the Fireball or the Meteor.  We live in Baraboo, Wisconsin." (contact info)

Gettysburg, PA  a.m. No Date 14NOV2010?

My mother and I were traveling south on Route 15 near Gettysburg, PA just north or the PA MD line this morning and saw the "meteorite" that you saw.  I found your email address in a blog post that you made while I was searching for a possible news article on it. (contact info)


Meteor/Meteorite News Today:
Particles in Hayabusa space probe confirmed to come from asteroid ...

Mainichi Daily News - 14 hours ago

Furthermore, similarities to an LL chondrite meteor believed to have fallen to earth from the asteroid were also seen. These factors led officials to ...

 Particles brought back by Hayabusa identified as from Itokawa

http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2010/11/20101116_hayabusa_e.html

RIA Novosti

Japanische Forscher bestätigen außerirdische Herkunft von Material aus ...

RIA Novosti - ‎7 時間前‎

... Luft- und Weltraumagentur JAXA zu dem Schluss gelangt, dass das gesammelte Material mit dem von auf die Erde gefallenen Meteoriten identisch ist. ...

Japón asegura que las muestras que trajo la sonda 'Hayabusa' son de un asteroide

El País.com (España) - ‎9 時間前‎

... minerales comunes en este planeta, pero su proporción y composición atómica coincide con las de "algún tipo de meteorito primitivo y no corresponden con ...

Hayabusa a bien rapporté des poussières d'astéroïde

Sciences et Avenir - ‎7 時間前‎

Leur composition ne correspond pas à celle de roches terrestres mais se rapprochent de celle d'une météoriteprimitive, selon les informations de la Jaxa. ...

Life on Earth Spawned by Dead Alien Microbes?

Discovery News - ‎2010年11月15日‎

Sure, one could envisage a short hop from planet-to-planet within our own solar system -- remember the stir of Marsmeteorite ALH84001 (pictured top) -- but ...

Witnesses describe seeing a 'giant meteor' 
BBC News
The meteor is reported to have broken into a number of pieces and it left bright streaks of light in the sky at about 0540 GMT. It was spotted in Glasgow, ...

Scottish skies lit up by 'giant meteor'
Herald Scotland
A meteor was seen streaking across the sky over central and northern Scotland early yesterday. People in Glasgow, Kinross and Durness, Sutherland, ...

Early risers tracked dazzling meteor across north skies
Press and Journal
Pest controller Edward Cumming was walking his dog at North Kessock on the Black Isle around 5.45am when he saw the bright object – thought to be a meteor ...

Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Wednesday | Wired Science | Wiredcom
Wake up early and look up tomorrow: The annual Leonid meteor shower is expected to peak in the hours just before dawn Wednesday and Thursday. The Leonids.

Leonid meteor shower to peak Thursday
Sify
New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) Leonid meteor shower will peak Thursday but there can be disappointment for sky gazers as the moon is expected to wash out the ...


The Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Wednesday Tips for Skywatching ...
This is the week that the famous Leonid meteor shower will be reaching its peak, and the best viewing of these ultra-swift "shooting stars" should come ...


Locations in San Diego to Watch the 2010 Leonid Meteor Shower
Yahoo! News
The November Leonid Meteor Shower is expected to peak on November 17 and 18. Traditionally, it has produced great shows with rates in the thousands per hour ...

Leonids meteor shower 2010 blogTO (blog) The 2010 Leonid meteor shower is just around the corner. Those in Toronto hoping to catch a glimpse of shooting stars will have the best chances of doing so ... Difficult SA viewing for meteor shower News24 Cape Town - There should be some strange lights in the sky on Wednesday as the Leonid meteorshower appears, but viewing conditions won't be fantastic. ... Doha to witness celestial spectacle Gulf Times An increase in the number of meteors at a particular time of the year is called a meteor shower. Comets shed the debris that becomes most meteor showers. ... Ask Al Answers: What was the very bright ball with a tail? Nashua Telegraph Al was queried by Paul N. of Nashua on Nov 3: “Have you heard any report of a meteor in the north/northeast sky last night? I viewed it from Cushing Avenue ... The Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Wednesday Tips for Skywatching ... This is the week that the famous Leonid meteor shower will be reaching its peak, and the best viewing of these ultra-swift "shooting stars" should come ... news.yahoo.com/.../theleonidmeteorshowerpeakswednesdaytip...

Podcast on Impacts - Geol. Soc. London

Follow the link for a podcast on Impacts. You'll also see links to other interesting meteorite-related topics.  http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/podcast9 
  When German physicist Ernst Florens Chladni published a pamphlet in 1794 arguing that meteorites had their origins in outer space, the idea was received with widespread mockery by the scientific community. Now, meteorites are recognised as an important astronomical process. But it has taken geologists a long time to acknowledge their significance to the history of the Earth - particularly as uniformitarianism overtook catastrophism as the prevailing theory of geologic change. 
  Sarah talks to the Natural History Museum's Kieren Howard about the significance of meteorites to Earth - not only their impact on Earth's surface, but the effect they have on people. And we discuss the most famous meteorite to strike Earth - the Chicxulub impact. Long held responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs, the Chixculub impact has been the focus of debate amongst scientists almost from the moment of its discovery. Sarah talks to a group of scientists who have been involved in a project to lay the debate to rest, once and for all.

Meteor/Meteorite News 29JUN2010

NASA Needs You: 6 Ways to Help an Astronomer

Wired News
“We can learn a lot from someone taking a cellphone video of a meteor as it burns up in the atmosphere,” said Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment ...


Scientists peer inside Hayabusa asteroid capsule
BY STEPHEN CLARK -SPACEFLIGHT NOW June 25, 2010
Scientists inside a spotless clean room near Tokyo are carefully opening
the drum-shaped capsule from the Hayabusa mission, beginning months of
tedious evaluations to determine whether the $200 million mission
returned dust grains from an asteroid. ...
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1006/25hayabusa/

Largest Meteorite in Nevada Found
Las Vegas Review-Journal © Jun. 21 at 12:21 p.m.
Count Guido Deiro found the largest meteorite in Nevada this year. ... [video]
http://www.lvrj.com/multimedia/Largest-Meteorite-in-Nevada-Found-96821184.html

Major meteor find- Stone considered largest ever found in Silver State By MAGGIE LILLIS - VIEW STAFF WRITER
Count Guido Roberto Deiro figures he probably tripped over several meteorites in his day and never even knew it. But when the 72-year-old Las Vegan really started looking, he hit the ... [story]
http://www.viewnews.com/2010/VIEW-Jun-22-Tue-2010/CentennialHills/36498045.html

Plenty of Planets to see in the sky

WHYY
102 years ago today, over a remote region of Russia there was an air burst, caused by a meteor or a comet, just 3-5 miles above the earth. ...

It`s all in how you see things

Estes Park Trail-Gazette
His photographic enjoyment seeps over into landscapes, panoramas and astrophotography, especially meteor showers. He has a Flickr account, which is like ...

Swing by Asteroid Lutetia With JPL
Jet Propulsion Laboratory June 25, 2010
The Rosetta Orbiter, a European Space Agency spacecraft heading for a
2014 encounter with a comet, will be flying close to asteroid Lutetia on
Saturday, July 10. Classes and clubs are invited to NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory from 2 to 4 p.m. that day to see first-ever,
close-up images of Lutetia, talk to a NASA/JPL Rosetta project manager
and participate in educational activities. ...
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/index.cfm?page=168

Japan Meteor/Meteorite News 14JUN2010

Hayabusa asteroid-sample capsule recovered in Outback

By Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News
The Japanese space capsule which landed in the Australian Outback on Sunday night (local time) has been recovered. The Hayabusa pod was picked up by a helicopter team and transferred to a control centre on the Woomera Prohibited Area. The canister, which is believed to hold the first samples ever grabbed from the surface of an asteroid, will now be shipped to Tokyo. ... [more]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10307048.stm

Raw Video: Probe Returns After Going to Asteroid

Posted on YouTube by AssociatedPress — [259 views] 2010年06月14日
— A Japanese capsule returned to Earth overnight after a seven-year, 4 billion-mile journey, burning apart on re-entry in a spectacular fireball. This is the first time a spacecraft successfully landed on an asteroid and returned to Earth. (June 14) ...

Asteroid mission returns to Earth (13/6/2010)

Posted on YouTube by UFOReportLive — [77 views] 2010年06月14日
— A capsule thought to contain the first samples grabbed from the surface of an asteroid has returned to Earth. The Japanese Hayabusa container hit the top of the atmosphere just after 1350 GMT, producing a bright fireball over southern Australia. It had a shield to cope with the heat of re-entry and a parachute for the final drop to the ground.
A recovery team later reported they had identified the landing zone in the Woomera Prohibited Range. BBC Science Correspondent Jonathan Amos describes the capsule's dramatic re-entry. Japanese space probe returns to Earth (14/6/2010)- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQAbFv...

Meteor/Meteorite News 14JUN2010

AFP

Scientists scramble for Japanese asteroid capsule

AFP
The pod, which was ejected from a Japanese space probe as it burned up in a spectacular meteor-like display over Australia, could hold the first piece of ...


「はやぶさ」大気圏突入、６０億キロの旅帰還

　【グレンダンボ（オーストラリア南部）＝本間雅江】宇宙航空研究開発機構の小惑星探査機「はやぶさ」が１３日夜、７年に及ぶ旅を終え、地球に帰還 した。 飛行した距離は、地球―太陽間の４０倍にあたる６０億キロ・メートルで、満身創痍(そ うい)の奇跡 ...

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/science/news/20100613-OYT1T00818.htm

Capsule plunges to Earth after historic visit to asteroid
BY STEPHEN CLARK, SPACEFLIGHT NOW June 13, 2010
Cutting across the night sky at more than 27,000 mph, a small Japanese
capsule returned to Earth from the surface of an asteroid Sunday and
landed in the remote Australian outback.
The 16-inch-wide capsule plunged into the atmosphere over Australia at
1351 GMT (9:51 a.m. EDT) on the second-fastest re-entry of a manmade
spacecraft ever attempted. ...
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1006/13hayabusaentry/

NASA Team Captures Hayabusa Spacecraft Reentry- YouTube Video

Posted on YouTube by nasaames — [202 views] 2010年06月13日
— A group of astronomers from NASA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and other organizations had a front row seat to observe the Hayabusa spacecraft's fiery plunge into Earth's atmosphere. The team flew aboard NASA's DC-8 airborne laboratory, packed with cameras and other imaging instruments, to capture the high-speed re-entry over an unpopulated area of central Australia on June 13, 2010. The Japanese spacecraft completed its seven-year, 1.25 billion mile journey to return a sample of the asteroid Itokawa. ...

The end of the world as we know it

Independent
Every century or so, a 10-meter meteor slams into the Earth with the force of a small nuclear device. Tunguska was the site of the last, in 1908, ...

Do You Have a Moon Rock?
FoxNews.com
June 13, 2010 - 3:04 PM | by: Michael Sorrentino
Former NASA Special Investigator and college professor Joseph Gutheinz is on a mission. He set out years ago to recover the missing "Goodwill Moon Rocks" that were given to all 50 states and more than 100 countries by the Nixon ...
http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/06/13/do-you-have-a-moon-rock/

Pasco man says rock collection holds discovery

TheNewsTribune.com
Calvert claims the hole proves the rock had to have been made of compacted comet dust, not a meteor that would be more dense and unlikely to have a hole ... [hoax]

Meteor/Meteorite News 9JUN2010

Hayabusa on Track for June 13 Return Home

Softpedia - ‎5 時間前‎

Once around the planet, it will eject a canister that JAXA experts hope contains some pebbles and meteorite dust. However, this is uncertain, given that the ...

Als der Mars noch lebensfreundlich war

derStandard.at - ‎2010年6月6日‎

Diese Zusammensetzung findet sich auch in den Carbonatkügelchen, die in dem Mars-Meteoriten ALH 84001 entdeckt wurden. Der Allan-Hills-Meteorit sorgte Ende ...

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中國經濟網 - ‎10 時間前‎

6月6日上午，記者趕到了波東村，正巧遇到聞訊趕來的北京天文臺研究隕石的專家張寶林和北京 電視臺科技頻道的記者，記者和專家走訪了20多位村民，大家都說當時確實沒有聽到和看到飛機經過，當時也確實是晴天。豐寧滿族自治縣氣象局局長吳曉軍證 實，6月5日上午8時至9時，衛星 ...
Village sunny weather, the three large ice cubes fall out the sky when the band sound (Figure) China Economic Net - 10 hours ago on June 6 morning, reporters rushed to the wave of East Village, jumped at the Beijing Observatory, who heard of meteorites Experts Baolin and Beijing TV channel technology journalists, reporters and experts visited more than 20 villagers, everyone says that when the aircraft did not hear and see through, was indeed a sunny day. Wu Xiaojun Fengning County Meteorological Bureau confirmed that, at eight o'clock on the June 5 to 9, the satellite ...

２０１０年宇宙の旅：小惑星の岩石採取、新設装置で分析へ

毎日新聞 - ‎16 時間前‎

地球に落下する隕 石（いんせき）は、小惑星からもたらされる物質の代表格だ。だが隕石は大気圏を通過する途中で高温になり、落下後は地球環境にさら されて変質している。はやぶさが持ち帰る物質は、このような熱変化や地球環境による汚染の影響がない。 ...
2010 A Space Odyssey: an asteroid rock samples, to analyze
毎日新聞 - 16 hours ago
Meteorites fall to Earth (Inseki) is the representative of the material come from the asteroid. But along the way became a hot meteorite through the atmosphere after the fall has been exposed to environmental deterioration. Material brought back by the spacecraft is not affected by pollution and global environmental changes such heat. ...

Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 11MAY2010

Halley's Comet Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight Space News
redOrbit

Halley's Comet - which was last seen from Earth on February 9 ,1986 - will bring a show to earth tonight yet again. ...

関西の〈隕石ハンター〉、「星の砂」カプセル捜索へ…来月「はやぶさ」が投下

スポーツ報知 - ‎18 時間前‎

天文ファンでつくる「日本流星研究会」の上田昌良さん（５８）（大阪府羽曳野市）ら２人の〈 隕石 ( いんせき ) ハンター〉が、宇宙航空研究開発機構の要請で、６月１３日に小惑星探査機「はやぶさ」が豪州に投下するカプセルの捜索に参加する。 ...
Kansai meteorite hunters; "Sand Star" next month to search for Capsule ... "Hayabusa" dropped
Astronomy fans make "Meteor Japan Study Group," says Ueda Masayoshi (58) (Habikino Osaka) are two meteorite (Inseki) Hunters; but, at the request of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, June 13, asteroid probe "Hayabusa" to join the search for Australia to drop the capsule. ...

Life on Mars?
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Sat, 08 May 2010 21:39 PM PDT
NASA researchers reopen the debate over Antarctica meteorite.

'Meteorite' on Israeli Beach May Have Been Weapon

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Initially it was identified as a meteorite, but after high amounts of phosphorous were detected, experts have concluded it was man-made. ...

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据物理学家组织网报道，亚利桑那大学陨石管理员马尔文· 基尔戈尔发现了今年4月在威斯康星州上空爆炸的一个天体所产生的迄今为止最大的陨石。4月 14日，威斯康星州西南 ...

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Porque é que vão para a Antárctida à procura de meteoritos? Eles não caem em qualquer sítio na Terra? Sim, os meteoritos caem com a mesma frequência em todo ...

Robert Ferguson MP: newly-discovered correspondence

University of Bristol - ‎12 時間前‎

A meteorite shower of more than 3000 fragments fell on the town of L'Aigle in France in the early afternoon of 26 April 1803. It was this meteorite shower ...

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Основу же метеоритов составили различные силикаты магния, а также сульфиды железа и никеля как в аморфной, так и в кристаллической форме. Изотопный анализ найденных частиц показал, что соотношение дейтерия к протию у них примерно совпадает с проанализированными образцами межпланетной космической ...