Regolith on a Tiny Asteroid: Granular Materials Partly Cover the Surface of Itokawa
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ITOKAWA H. Miyamoto , H. Yano, D. Scheeres, S. Sasaki, O. Barnouin-Jha, R.W. Gaskell, A. Cheng, H. Demura, A. Fujiwara, T. Hashimoto, N. Hirata, C. Honda, M. Ishiguro, T. Kubota, T. Michikami, A.M. Nakamura, R. Nakamura, J. Saito, Y. Yokota, and Hayabusa Team, Department of Geosystem Engineering, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan ([email protected]), Planetary Science Institute, 1700 E. Ft. Lowell Rd., Suite 106, Tucson, AZ 85719, The Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, University of Michigan, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, JPL/CALTECH, University of Aizu, Kobe University, Seoul University, Fukushima National College of Technology, National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology
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تاریخ انتشار 2006