Chikako Hirose

Hayabusa2 arrives at the carbonaceous asteroid 162173 Ryugu—A spinning top–shaped rubble pile

Sei‐ichiro Watanabe, Masatoshi Hirabayashi, Naru Hirata et al. · Science · 2019 · 629 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Geology +10

The geomorphology, color, and thermal properties of Ryugu: Implications for parent-body processes

Seiji Sugita, Rie Honda, Tomokatsu Morota et al. · Science · 2019 · 458 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Geology +11

Preliminary analysis of the Hayabusa2 samples returned from C-type asteroid Ryugu

Toru Yada, Masanao Abe, Tatsuaki Okada et al. · Nature Astronomy · 2021 · 334 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Geology +14

An artificial impact on the asteroid (162173) Ryugu formed a crater in the gravity-dominated regime

Masahiko Arakawa, Takanao Saiki, Koji Wada et al. · Science · 2020 · 328 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Astronomy, Earth Sciences +17

Sample collection from asteroid (162173) Ryugu by Hayabusa2: Implications for surface evolution

Tomokatsu Morota, Seiji Sugita, Yuichiro Cho et al. · Science · 2020 · 215 citations

Natural Sciences, Astronomy, Earth Sciences +15