In the past few years, several major space missions have been completed (eg, Deep Impact,
LCROSS, Chandrayaan-1, Stardust, Hayabusa), and a number of spacecraft are currently …

Collisions are one of the key processes sha** planetary systems. Asteroid families are
outcomes of such collision still identifiable across our solar system. The families provide a …

The small bodies of our solar system are the remnants of the early stages of planetary
formation. A considerable amount of information regarding the processes that occurred …

The reflectance spectra of the most abundant meteorites, ordinary chondrites, are different
from those of the abundant S-type (mnemonic for siliceous) asteroids. This discrepancy has …

The Dawn mission has provided new evidence strengthening the identification of asteroid
Vesta as the parent body of the howardite, eucrite, and diogenite (HED) meteorites. The …

Abundant nanophase iron (np-Fe0) is ubiquitously formed on the surface of the Moon and
other airless bodies through space weathering processes, and plays a dominant role in …

Telescopic measurements of asteroids' colours rarely match laboratory reflectance spectra
of meteorites owing to a 'space weathering', process that rapidly reddens asteroid surfaces …

On the basis of observations using Cs‐corrected STEM, we identified three types of surface
modification probably formed by space weathering on the surfaces of Itokawa particles. They …

Interplanetary dust particles are important samples of dust-producing objects in the Solar
System, including many primitive and organic-rich bodies that are not sampled by known …

Understanding the origin of bright shooting stars and their meteorite samples is among the
most ancient of astronomy-related questions, which at larger scales has human …