[meteorite-list] 1st International Announcement of Opportunity for HAYABUSA Sample Investigation

[Ron Baalke]

http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=49987  

1st International Announcement of Opportunity for HAYABUSA Sample Investigation
European Space Agency
09 Feb 2012

JAXA has released the 1st International Announcement of Opportunity
(AO) for HAYABUSA Sample Investigations. The AO is open to the global
scientific community, so proposals are also welcomed from European
investigators. 

HAYABUSA is a sample return project of the Japan Aerospace Exploration
Agency (JAXA), which was launched in 2003 and successfully touched down
on the asteroid Itokawa in 2005, returning back to Earth samples of the
asteroid in 2010.

Full details and documentation of the HAYABUSA AO are available at
http://hayabusaao.isas.jaxa.jp/index.html

Schedule

Release Date: 	24 January, 2012
Proposals Due: 	7 March, 2012, 15:00 (UTC)
Completion of review: 	mid May, 2012