[meteorite-list] Japan Shoots For a Piece of an Asteroid(Hayabusa)

[K. Ohtsuka]

Hello Darren and list,

See details about the HAYABUSA mission to S-type Asteroid (25143) Itokawa:

http://www.hayabusa.isas.jaxa.jp/e/index.html

The Japanese spacecraft HAYABUSA will encounter Itokawa Oct.- Nov. this
year,
then will probe into and will retrieve the sample around only 1 gram in
total.

By the way, the reflectance spectral data of Itokawa corresponds to LL
chondrite (LL5 or 6),
so if this sample return mission succeeds in and the analyses of the Itokawa
sample prove Itokawa to be LL, then the market price to LL chondrites may
respond and
rise sharply.

Lets obtain LL chondrites now ????

K. Ohtsuka

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darren Garrison" <cynapse at charter.net>
To: "Ron Baalke" <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
Cc: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 6:12 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Japan Shoots For a Piece of an
Asteroid(Hayabusa)


On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 13:45:53 -0700 (PDT), Ron Baalke
<baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

>The Hayabusa probe is slowly closing in on a distant asteroid named
>Itokawa. Within a few months, after surveying the asteroid thoroughly

Hadn't heard about this mission.  Anyone know what class of asteroid this is
supposed to be?
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