{"id":41544,"date":"2026-04-27T06:49:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/?p=41544"},"modified":"2026-04-27T06:49:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:49:34","slug":"the-science-from-asteroid-sample-return-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/?p=41544","title":{"rendered":"The science from asteroid sample return missions<span class=\"badge-status\" style=\"background:#787878\">OPEN ACCESS<\/span>&nbsp;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Elizabeth J. Tasker, Harold C. Connolly Jr, Shogo Tachibana<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>review article, accepted for publication in Contemporary Physics, 24 April 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2604.22182\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>PDF (OPEN ACCESS)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify-text\">&#8220;To date, three samples from near-Earth asteroids have been delivered to Earth by Japan&#8217;s Hayabusa (2010) and Hayabusa2 (2020) missions, and the United States OSIRIS-REx mission (2023). Free from terrestrial contamination, these pristine materials provide new opportunities to investigate planetary formation processes, the delivery of organics and water to the early Earth, and the nature of potentially hazardous asteroids. As analysis of the asteroid samples proceeds in laboratories around the world, we visit each of the missions, review the initial scientific findings, and explore the value of sample return in understanding our origins and protecting our future.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth J. Tasker, Harold C. Connolly Jr, Shogo Tachibana review article, accepted for publication in Contemporary Physics, 24 April 2026 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) &#8220;To date, three samples from near-Earth asteroids have been delivered to Earth&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,5445,2350,182,2243,552,181,1184],"tags":[5719,3872,1005,1854,5789,3991,1871,2244,4781,4899,270,459],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41545,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41544\/revisions\/41545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}