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Neutron Activation Analysis of a Particle Returned from Asteroid Itokawa

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2011

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Ebihara, Mitsuru
Sekimoto, S.
Shirai, N.
Hamajima, Y.
Yamamoto, M.
Kumagai, K.
Oura, Y.
Ireland, Trevor
Kitajima, Fumio
Nagao, Keisuke

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American Association for the Advancement of Science

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A single grain (~3 micrograms) returned by the Hayabusa spacecraft was analyzed by neutron activation analysis. This grain is mainly composed of olivine with minor amounts of plagioclase, troilite, and metal. Our results establish that the Itokawa sample

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/31043

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Science

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10.1126/science.1207865

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2037-12-31

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