25143 Itokawa (provisional designation 1998 SF36) is a sub-kilometer near-Earth object of the Apollo group and a potentially hazardous asteroid. It was...

near-Earth asteroid 25143 Itokawa was named in honor of Itokawa, and is notable as the target of the Hayabusa mission. Born in Tokyo, Itokawa skipped grades...

1974), Japanese speed skater 25143 Itokawa, an asteroid named after Hideo Itokawa This page lists people with the surname Itokawa. If an internal link intending...

return a sample of material from a small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa to Earth for further analysis. Hayabusa, formerly known as MUSES-C for...

target of the Hayabusa 2 mission, is expected to be hydrated where (25143) Itokawa was not. Hayabusa 1's NIRS (Near-Infrared Spectrometer) design was then...

Planetary nomenclature, like terrestrial nomenclature, is a system of uniquely identifying features on the surface of a planet or natural satellite so...

asteroid returns include the Japanese probes Hayabusa, which visited 25143 Itokawa in 2010; and Hayabusa2, which visited 162173 Ryugu in June 2018. Overall...

Landers have explored several smaller bodies including 433 Eros (2001), 25143 Itokawa (2005), Tempel 1 (2005), 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (2014), 162173 Ryugu...

rover was deployed from Hayabusa orbiter with aim to land on asteroid 25143 Itokawa. However, the landing failed as MINERVA missed the asteroid and ended...

the asteroids (1) Ceres, (4) Vesta, (433) Eros, (2867) Steins, and (25143) Itokawa" (PDF). Astronomy & Astrophysics. 565 (A79): 3. Bibcode:2014A&A...565A...

V; KAPRAN, B (2009). "Clast fabric and mass wasting on minor planet 25143-Itokawa: correlation with talus and other periglacial features on Earth". Sedimentary...

elongated 624 Hektor and the bilobated 216 Kleopatra and 4769 Castalia. 25143 Itokawa, which was photographed by the Hayabusa probe, also appears to be a...

by robotic and crewed missions; the comet Wild 2 and the asteroids 25143 Itokawa, 162173 Ryugu, and 101955 Bennu have been visited by robotic spacecraft...

body. However, the first unambiguous rubble pile to be photographed is 25143 Itokawa, which has no obvious impact craters and is thus almost certainly a...

the Moon and Mars, falling into infant stars, as well as on asteroid 25143 Itokawa. Such meteorites include chondrites, collections of debris from the...

surface of a single grain from particles retrieved from the asteroid 25143 Itokawa by the Japanese space probe Hayabusa. Comets are kilometer-sized bodies...

From September to November 2005, the Japanese Hayabusa probe studied 25143 Itokawa in detail and returned samples of its surface to Earth on 13 June 2010...

2000 PN9 17 (24443) 2000 OG 18 (24445) 2000 PM8 † 19 24761 Ahau 20 25143 Itokawa 21 (25330) 1999 KV4 22 (26379) 1999 HZ1 23 (26663) 2000 XK47 24 (27002)...

1). USA (NASA) Deep Impact 19 November 2005 First asteroid ascent (25143 Itokawa). First interplanetary escape without separating and discarding the...

but failed. ISAS recovered from this setback and launched Hayabusa to 25143 Itokawa in 2003. The following M-V launch was the scientific Astro-E2 satellite...

samples returned from the Moon, the comet Wild 2, and the asteroids 25143 Itokawa, 162173 Ryugu, and 101955 Bennu. In 1981, a proposal for an asteroid...

confirmation of this phenomenon. 101955 Bennu – Carbonaceous asteroid 25143 Itokawa—Smallest asteroid to be visited by a spacecraft 54509 YORP – Earth co-orbital...

of landing. Japanese Hayabusa probe made several attempts to land on 25143 Itokawa in 2005 with mixed success, including a failed attempt to deploy a rover...

2002 distant flyby success went on to visit comet 81P/Wild 1999-003A 25143 Itokawa Hayabusa ISAS 2005–07 sample return success 2005: landed and collected...

its microgravity test facility, becomes the namesake of a crater on 25143 Itokawa, an asteroid visited by Japanese uncrewed spacecraft Hayabusa. Kamisunagawa's...

in low density, or rubble pile asteroids, for example the asteroid 25143 Itokawa and 101955 Bennu. In geology, the effect is common in formerly glaciated...

space probe was launched in 2003 and rendezvoused with the asteroid 25143 Itokawa. It was powered by four xenon ion engines, which used microwave electron...

2005 Comet Tempel 1 Deep Impact First comet impact. USA 4 July 2005 25143 Itokawa Hayabusa First asteroid ascent. First interplanetary escape without...

(52760) 1998 ML14 1998 LINEAR List (35396) 1997 XF11 1997 Spacewatch List 25143 Itokawa 1998 LINEAR List (136617) 1994 CC 1994 Spacewatch List (175706) 1996...

particles in aerogel using X-ray techniques Samples returned from asteroid 25143 Itokawa by the Hayabusa mission Visualizing with blue and green or blue filters...