The rubble-pile asteroid Itokawa as observed by Hayabusa A Fujiwara, J Kawaguchi, DK Yeomans, M Abe, T Mukai, T Okada, J Saito, ... Science 312 (5778), 1330-1334, 2006 | 1022 | 2006 |
Itokawa dust particles: a direct link between S-type asteroids and ordinary chondrites T Nakamura, T Noguchi, M Tanaka, ME Zolensky, M Kimura, ... Science 333 (6046), 1113-1116, 2011 | 591 | 2011 |
Hayabusa2 arrives at the carbonaceous asteroid 162173 Ryugu—A spinning top–shaped rubble pile S Watanabe, M Hirabayashi, N Hirata, N Hirata, R Noguchi, Y Shimaki, ... Science 364 (6437), 268-272, 2019 | 525 | 2019 |
Touchdown of the Hayabusa spacecraft at the Muses Sea on Itokawa H Yano, T Kubota, H Miyamoto, T Okada, D Scheeres, Y Takagi, ... Science 312 (5778), 1350-1353, 2006 | 500 | 2006 |
The geomorphology, color, and thermal properties of Ryugu: Implications for parent-body processes S Sugita, R Honda, T Morota, S Kameda, H Sawada, E Tatsumi, ... Science 364 (6437), eaaw0422, 2019 | 352 | 2019 |
The surface composition of asteroid 162173 Ryugu from Hayabusa2 near-infrared spectroscopy K Kitazato, RE Milliken, T Iwata, M Abe, M Ohtake, S Matsuura, T Arai, ... Science 364 (6437), 272-275, 2019 | 339 | 2019 |
Incipient space weathering observed on the surface of Itokawa dust particles T Noguchi, T Nakamura, M Kimura, ME Zolensky, M Tanaka, T Hashimoto, ... Science 333 (6046), 1121-1125, 2011 | 319 | 2011 |
Preliminary analysis of the Hayabusa2 samples returned from C-type asteroid Ryugu T Yada, M Abe, T Okada, A Nakato, K Yogata, A Miyazaki, K Hatakeda, ... Nature Astronomy 6 (2), 214-220, 2022 | 220 | 2022 |
An artificial impact on the asteroid (162173) Ryugu formed a crater in the gravity-dominated regime M Arakawa, T Saiki, K Wada, K Ogawa, T Kadono, K Shirai, H Sawada, ... Science 368 (6486), 67-71, 2020 | 213 | 2020 |
Irradiation history of Itokawa regolith material deduced from noble gases in the Hayabusa samples K Nagao, R Okazaki, T Nakamura, YN Miura, T Osawa, K Bajo, S Matsuda, ... Science 333 (6046), 1128-1131, 2011 | 186 | 2011 |
MASCOT—the mobile asteroid surface scout onboard the Hayabusa2 mission TM Ho, V Baturkin, C Grimm, JT Grundmann, C Hobbie, E Ksenik, ... Space Science Reviews 208, 339-374, 2017 | 164 | 2017 |
Space weathered rims found on the surfaces of the Itokawa dust particles T Noguchi, M Kimura, T Hashimoto, M Konno, T Nakamura, ME Zolensky, ... Meteoritics & Planetary Science 49 (2), 188-214, 2014 | 164 | 2014 |
Low thermal conductivity boulder with high porosity identified on C-type asteroid (162173) Ryugu M Grott, J Knollenberg, M Hamm, K Ogawa, R Jaumann, KA Otto, M Delbo, ... Nature Astronomy 3 (11), 971-976, 2019 | 163 | 2019 |
Sample collection from asteroid (162173) Ryugu by Hayabusa2: Implications for surface evolution T Morota, S Sugita, Y Cho, M Kanamaru, E Tatsumi, N Sakatani, R Honda, ... Science 368 (6491), 654-659, 2020 | 162 | 2020 |
Samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu are similar to Ivuna-type carbonaceous meteorites T Yokoyama, K Nagashima, I Nakai, ED Young, Y Abe, J Aléon, ... Science 379 (6634), eabn7850, 2022 | 155 | 2022 |
Formation and evolution of carbonaceous asteroid Ryugu: Direct evidence from returned samples T Nakamura, M Matsumoto, K Amano, Y Enokido, ME Zolensky, ... Science 379 (6634), eabn8671, 2022 | 148 | 2022 |
RETRACTED: X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry of Asteroid Itokawa by Hayabusa T Okada, K Shirai, Y Yamamoto, T Arai, K Ogawa, K Hosono, M Kato Science 312 (5778), 1338-1341, 2006 | 135 | 2006 |
The ESA Hera mission: detailed characterization of the DART impact outcome and of the binary asteroid (65803) Didymos P Michel, M Küppers, AC Bagatin, B Carry, S Charnoz, J De Leon, ... The planetary science journal 3 (7), 160, 2022 | 133 | 2022 |
Highly porous nature of a primitive asteroid revealed by thermal imaging T Okada, T Fukuhara, S Tanaka, M Taguchi, T Arai, H Senshu, N Sakatani, ... Nature 579 (7800), 518-522, 2020 | 126 | 2020 |
Hayabusa2: Scientific importance of samples returned from C-type near-Earth asteroid (162173) 1999 JU3 S Tachibana, M Abe, M Arakawa, M Fujimoto, Y Iijima, M Ishiguro, ... Geochemical Journal 48 (6), 571-587, 2014 | 123 | 2014 |