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    The curation of extraterrestrial samples (astromaterials) obtained by sample-return missions takes place at facilities specially designed to preserve both...
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    Planetary Material Sample Curation Facility (Japanese: 惑星物質試料受入れ設備) (PMSCF), commonly known as the Extraterrestrial Sample Curation Center (ESCuC, 地球外試料キュレーションセンター)...
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    Moon rock (redirect from Lunar sample)
    NASA SP-2000-4029. Retrieved August 1, 2013. "NASA Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility". NASA Curation Lunar. NASA. September 1, 2016. Archived from the original...
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    Yoshikawa M.; Kawaguchi J. (2014). "Hayabusa-returned sample curation in the Planetary Material Sample Curation Facility of JAXA". Met. & Planet. Sci. 49 (2):...
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    and other extraterrestrial samples, along with associated data records. It also contains laboratories for processing and studying the samples without contamination...
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    A sample-return mission is a spacecraft mission to collect and return samples from an extraterrestrial location to Earth for analysis. Sample-return missions...
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    Hayabusa2 (category Sample return missions)
    sealed containers are opened. The samples will be curated and analyzed at JAXA's Extraterrestrial Sample Curation Center, where international scientists...
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    OSIRIS-REx (category Sample return missions)
    sample will be analyzed at NASA's Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Directorate (ARES) and at Japan's Extraterrestrial Sample Curation Center...
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    (ARES). A small portion of the sample will also be curated at Japan's Extraterrestrial Sample Curation Center. Most of the sample (≥75% of the total) would...
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    newly acquired sample had the strongest potential yet for evidence of life. Presentations included plans for sample handling and curation upon return to...
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    the samples for retrieval. France has worked towards a sample return for many years. This included concepts of an extraterrestrial sample curation facility...
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    Exoplanetology Extraterrestrial life – Life that does not originate on Earth Extraterrestrial sample curation – Use and preservation of extraterrestrial samples...
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  • Lunar and Planetary Institute (category NASA groups, organizations, and centers)
    including: Extraterrestrial Materials Analysis Group (ExMAG) - responsible for the collection, curation, and analysis of extraterrestrial samples Lunar Exploration...
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    planetary materials including meteorites, Moon rocks and other extraterrestrial samples returned by spacecraft missions. She is director of the School...
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    though, ultimately, all samples collected by ANSMET are transferred to the Smithsonian Institution for permanent storage and curation. These meteorites are...
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  • the case of sample-return missions, the aim of the mission is to return extraterrestrial samples to Earth, and sterilization of the samples would make...
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    Hayabusa (category Sample return missions)
    be of extraterrestrial origin, and definitely from the asteroid Itokawa. According to Japanese scientists, the composition of Hayabusa's samples was more...
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    Genesis (spacecraft) (category Sample return missions)
    are under long-term curation at NASA Johnson Space Center so that as sample analysis techniques evolve, pristine solar wind samples will be available to...
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    such pristine samples, there is a need to design a facility dedicated to curation of restricted (potentially biohazardous) extraterrestrial materials. The...
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    disruption event by the supermassive black hole IGR J12580+0134, at the center of the galaxy NGC 4845. Examples of parent stars considered to have disrupted...
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    Gounelle, M. (2012). The Asteroid-Comet Continuum: Evidence from Extraterrestrial Samples. 2012 European Planetary Science Congress. p. 220. Rickman, H....
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    equation Earliest known life forms Earth analog Extraterrestrial life Extraterrestrial sample curation Extremophiles Hypothetical types of biochemistry...
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  • sterilization processes, samples will be taken out of the capsule in a dedicated sample curation facility to conduct initial sample characterization, prior...
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    21,500 ± 3,300 light-years (6,600 ± 1,000 parsecs) from Earth near the center of the Milky Way, making it one of the most distant planets known. On January...
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    troctolite 76535". NASA/Johnson Space Center photograph S73-19456. Curation and Analysis Planning Team for Extraterrestrial Materials (CAPTEM). Retrieved 2006-11-21...
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    Disrupted planet Excretion disk Exozodiacal dust Extraterrestrial materials Extraterrestrial sample curation Giant-impact hypothesis Gravitational collapse...
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  • a program for atmospheric collection and curation of these particles was developed at Johnson Space Center in Texas. This stratospheric micrometeorite...
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    Team, First Lunar Outpost Team, Orbital Debris Team, Planetary Materials Curation Team, and Mars Life Public Affairs Team Laurels Award, 1996, by Aviation...
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    inclusion of peer reviewers' opinions on their plausibility or an attached curation of post-publication peer evaluations. Cognitive scientist and AI researcher...
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    27 December 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2013. "NASA Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility". NASA Curation Lunar. NASA. 1 September 2016. Archived from the original...
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