The Power of Sample Return Missions - Stardust and Hayabusa

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May 2011

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The Molecular Universe, Proceedings of the 280th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Toledo, Spain, May 30

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Recent successes of the US Stardust Comet Sample Return and Japanese Hayabusa Asteroid Sample Return Missions have demonstrated the powerful scientific insights that can be gained by bringing materials from extraterrestrial bodies to terrestrial laboratories for analysis. Such missions can establish the nature of extraterrestrial materials at a level of detail that can never be matched by in situ analyses, and analytical techniques can be used that need not suffer from the normal limitations of size, mass, power, etc. that are imposed on flight instrumentation. A brief overview of the Stardust and Hayabusa missions will be presented, followed by a number of specific examples of the scientific results that can be obtained from returned samples. Some of these results have confirmed our suspicions about the nature of comets and asteroids, while others have greatly changed how we envision our Solar System was formed.

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