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- Title
scientific observation campaign of the Hayabusa-2 capsule re-entry.
- Authors
Sansom, Eleanor K; Devillepoix, Hadrien A R; Yamamoto, Masa-yuki; Abe, Shinsuke; Nozawa, Satoshi; Towner, Martin C; Cupák, Martin; Hiramatsu, Yoshihiro; Kawamura, Taichi; Fujita, Kazuhisa; Yoshikawa, Makoto; Ishihara, Yoshiaki; Hamama, Islam; Segawa, Norihisa; Kakinami, Yoshihiro; Furumoto, Muneyoshi; Katao, Hiroshi; Inoue, Yuichiro; Cool, Andrew; Bonning, Geoffrey
- Abstract
On 2020 December 5 at 17:28 UTC, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa-2 sample return capsule came back to the Earth. It re-entered the atmosphere over South Australia, visible for 53 seconds as a fireball from near the Northern Territory border toward Woomera where it landed in the the Woomera military test range. A scientific observation campaign was planned to observe the optical, seismo-acoustic, radio, and high energy particle phenomena associated with the entry of an interplanetary object. A multi-institutional collaboration between Australian and Japanese universities resulted in the deployment of 49 instruments, with a further 13 permanent observation sites. The campaign successfully recorded optical, seismo-acoustic, and spectral data for this event which will allow an in-depth analysis of the effects produced by interplanetary objects impacting the Earth's atmosphere. This will allow future comparison and insights to be made with natural meteoroid objects.
- Subjects
SOUTH Australia; NORTHERN Territory; JAPAN Aerospace Exploration Agency; ATMOSPHERE; METEOROIDS
- Publication
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 2022, Vol 74, Issue 1, p50
- ISSN
0004-6264
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/pasj/psab109