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    25143 Itokawa (provisional designation 1998 SF36) is a sub-kilometer near-Earth object of the Apollo group and a potentially hazardous asteroid. It was...
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    near-Earth asteroid 25143 Itokawa was named in honor of Itokawa, and is notable as the target of the Hayabusa mission. Born in Tokyo, Itokawa skipped grades...
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  • 1974), Japanese speed skater 25143 Itokawa, an asteroid named after Hideo Itokawa This page lists people with the surname Itokawa. If an internal link intending...
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    return a sample of material from a small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa to Earth for further analysis. Hayabusa, formerly known as MUSES-C for...
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    Planetary nomenclature, like terrestrial nomenclature, is a system of uniquely identifying features on the surface of a planet or natural satellite so...
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  • target of the Hayabusa 2 mission, is expected to be hydrated where (25143) Itokawa was not. Hayabusa 1's NIRS (Near-Infrared Spectrometer) design was then...
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    asteroid returns include the Japanese probes Hayabusa, which visited 25143 Itokawa in 2010; and Hayabusa2, which visited 162173 Ryugu in June 2018. Overall...
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  • rover was deployed from Hayabusa orbiter with aim to land on asteroid 25143 Itokawa. However, the landing failed as MINERVA missed the asteroid and ended...
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    by robotic and crewed missions; the comet Wild 2 and the asteroids 25143 Itokawa, 162173 Ryugu, and 101955 Bennu have been visited by robotic spacecraft...
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    body. However, the first unambiguous rubble pile to be photographed is 25143 Itokawa, which has no obvious impact craters and is thus almost certainly a...
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    V; KAPRAN, B (2009). "Clast fabric and mass wasting on minor planet 25143-Itokawa: correlation with talus and other periglacial features on Earth". Sedimentary...
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    Landers have explored several smaller bodies including 433 Eros (2001), 25143 Itokawa (2005), Tempel 1 (2005), 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (2014), 162173 Ryugu...
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    elongated 624 Hektor and the bilobated 216 Kleopatra and 4769 Castalia. 25143 Itokawa, which was photographed by the Hayabusa probe, also appears to be a...
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    aboard an M-V rocket, returning to Earth in 2010 with samples from 25143 Itokawa. While there were issues with deploying a probe, Hayabusa ultimately...
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    surface of a single grain from particles retrieved from the asteroid 25143 Itokawa by the Japanese space probe Hayabusa. Comets are kilometer-sized bodies...
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    From September to November 2005, the Japanese Hayabusa probe studied 25143 Itokawa in detail and returned samples of its surface to Earth on 13 June 2010...
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    of landing. Japanese Hayabusa probe made several attempts to land on 25143 Itokawa in 2005 with mixed success, including a failed attempt to deploy a rover...
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    but failed. ISAS recovered from this setback and launched Hayabusa to 25143 Itokawa in 2003. The following M-V launch was the scientific Astro-E2 satellite...
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  • 1). USA (NASA) Deep Impact 19 November 2005 First asteroid ascent (25143 Itokawa). First interplanetary escape without separating and discarding the...
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    the Moon and Mars, falling into infant stars, as well as on asteroid 25143 Itokawa. Such meteorites include chondrites, collections of debris from the...
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    2002 distant flyby success went on to visit comet 81P/Wild 1999-003A 25143 Itokawa Hayabusa ISAS 2005–07 sample return success 2005: landed and collected...
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  • particles in aerogel using X-ray techniques Samples returned from asteroid 25143 Itokawa by the Hayabusa mission Visualizing with blue and green or blue filters...
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    2005 Comet Tempel 1 Deep Impact First comet impact. USA 4 July 2005 25143 Itokawa Hayabusa First asteroid ascent. First interplanetary escape without...
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    confirmation of this phenomenon. 101955 Bennu – Carbonaceous asteroid 25143 Itokawa—Smallest asteroid to be visited by a spacecraft 54509 YORP – Earth co-orbital...
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    in low density, or rubble pile asteroids, for example the asteroid 25143 Itokawa and 101955 Bennu. In geology, the effect is common in formerly glaciated...
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  • Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth by landing in the Australian Outback. 2012 – A series...
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    CU3 (23187) 2000 PN9 (24443) 2000 OG (24445) 2000 PM8 † 24761 Ahau 25143 Itokawa (25330) 1999 KV4 (26379) 1999 HZ1 (26663) 2000 XK47 (27002) 1998 DV9...
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    samples returned from the Moon, the comet Wild 2, and the asteroids 25143 Itokawa, 162173 Ryugu, and 101955 Bennu. In 1981, a proposal for an asteroid...
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    its microgravity test facility, becomes the namesake of a crater on 25143 Itokawa, an asteroid visited by Japanese uncrewed spacecraft Hayabusa. Kamisunagawa's...
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  • orbiter, part of the Disaster Monitoring Constellation  Japan Hayabusa 25143 Itokawa Success Hayabusa, first sample return from asteroid, returned in 2010...
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