Oxygen Isotopic Compositions of Asteroidal Materials returned from Itokawa by the Hayabusa Mission

Yurimoto, Hisayoshi; Abe, Ken-ichi; Abe, Masanao; Ebihara, Mitsuru; Fujimura, Akio; Hashiguchi, Minako; Hashizume, K; Itoh, Shoichi; Katayama, Juri; Kato, Chizu; Kawaguchi, Junichiro; Kawasaki, Noriyuki; Kitajima, Fumio; Kobayashi, Sachio; Meike, Tatsuji; Mukai, Toshifumi; Nagao, Keisuke; Nakamura, Tomoki; Naraoka, Hiroshi; Noguchi, Takaaki; Okazaki, Ryuji; Park, Changkun; Sakamoto, Naoya; Seto, Yusuke; Takei, Masashi; Tsuchiyama, Akira; Uesugi, Masayuki; Wakaki, Shigeyuki; Yada, Toru; Yamamoto, Kosuke; Yoshikawa, Makoto; Zolensky, Michael; Ireland, Trevor

Oxygen Isotopic Compositions of Asteroidal Materials returned from Itokawa by the Hayabusa Mission

Date

2011

Authors

Yurimoto, Hisayoshi

Abe, Ken-ichi

Abe, Masanao

Ebihara, Mitsuru

Fujimura, Akio

Hashiguchi, Minako

Hashizume, K

Itoh, Shoichi

Katayama, Juri

Kato, Chizu

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Abstract

Meteorite studies suggest that each solar system object has a unique oxygen isotopic composition. Chondrites, the most primitive of meteorites, have been believed to be derived from asteroids, but oxygen isotopic compositions of asteroids themselves have