Ground-based lightcurve observation campaign of (25143) Itokawa between 2001 and 2004

Setsuko Nishihara, Kouhei Kitazato, Masanao Abe +9

The asteroid (25143) Itokawa is a target object of the Japanese sample return mission, HAYABUSA. We have observed Itokawa in optical wave- length (R-band) with the 1.05-m Schmidt t…