Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8142081 | Planetary and Space Science | 2018 | 22 Pages |
Abstract
Thermal Infrared Imager TIR on Hayabusa2 has proven its in-flight performance to detect celestial bodies during the cruise phase, especially by the observations of the Earth and the Moon before and after the Earth swing-by on 3rd of December 2015. The result indicates that the target C-type asteroid 162173 Ryugu will be detected from the distance of 3000â¯kmâ¯at the beginning of the approach phase, and that a C-type small moon larger than 1â¯m will be detected from the home position, 20â¯km from the asteroid, if it orbits around the asteroid.
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Authors
Tatsuaki Okada, Tetsuya Fukuhara, Satoshi Tanaka, Makoto Taguchi, Takehiko Arai, Hiroki Senshu, Hirohide Demura, Yoshiko Ogawa, Toru Kouyama, Naoya Sakatani, Jun Takita, Tomohiko Sekiguchi, Jorn Helbert, Thomas G. Mueller, Axel Hagermann,