Initial Descriptions of Asteroid Ryugu Samples Returned by Hayabusa2

Yada T., Abe M., Nakato A., Yogata K., Miyazaki A., Kumagai K., Hatakeda K., Okada T., Nishimura M., Furuya S., Yoshitake M., Iwamae A., Soejima H., Hitomi Y., Riu L., Lourit L., Pilorget C., Hamm V., Brunetto R., Bibring J.-P., Cho Y., Yumoto K., Yabe Y., Sugita S., Tachibana S., Sawada H., Sakamoto K., Hayashi T., Yamamoto D., Fukai R., Sugahara H., Yurimoto H., Usui T., Watanabe S., Tsuda Y.

84th Annual Meeting of The Meteoritical Society 2021 (abstract # 6186)

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C-type asteroid Ryugu samples returned by Hayabusa2 experienced initial descriptions conducted by JAXA. They are described with an optical microscope, a balance, a visible spectrometer, an FT-IR, and a MicrOmega.