Hayabusa’s Touch down Sites at the Smooth Terrain on Asteroid 25143 Itokawa: Initial Investigation
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INVESTIGATION. H. Yano, T. Kubota , H. Miyamoto, T. Okada, D. Scheeres, Y. Takagi, K. Yoshida, M. Abe, S. Abe, O. Barnouin-Jha, A. Fujiwara, S. Hasegawa, T. Hashimoto, M. Ishiguro, M. Kato, J. Kawaguchi, T. Mukai, J. Saito, S. Sasaki, and M. Yoshikawa, 1 Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229-8510, Japan, e-mail: [email protected]), Deprtment of Geosystem Engineering, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2140 U.S.A., Toho Gakuen University, Nagoya, Aichi 465-8515, Japan, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8579 Japan, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501, Japan, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, 20723 U.S.A., Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Mizusawa, Iwate 023-0861, Japan.
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