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most citedHayabusa-2 Mission Target Asteroid 162173 Ryugu (1999 JU3): Searching for the Object's Spin-Axis Orientation

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astro-ph.EP2014★ 53 cited

Optical Properties of (162173) 1999 JU3: In Preparation for the JAXA Hayabusa 2 Sample Return Mission

Masateru Ishiguro, Daisuke Kuroda, Sunao Hasegawa +31

We investigated the magnitude-phase relation of (162173) 1999 JU3, a target asteroid for the JAXA Hayabusa 2 sample return mission. We initially employed the international Astronom…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 6 cited

Fast Rotation of a Sub-km-sized Near-Earth Object 2011 XA3

S. Urakawa, K. Ohtsuka, S. Abe +2

We present lightcurve observations and their multiband photometry for near-Earth object (NEO) 2011 XA3. The lightcurve has shown a periodicity of 0.0304 +- 0.0003 day (= 43.8 +- 0.…