Infrasound and Seismic Observation of Hayabusa Reentry as An Artificial Meteorite Fall

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Dec 2011

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American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2011, abstract #P33A-1742

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[6022] Planetary Sciences: Comets And Small Bodies / Impact Phenomena, [6094] Planetary Sciences: Comets And Small Bodies / Instruments And Techniques, [6099] Planetary Sciences: Comets And Small Bodies / General Or Miscellaneous, [6245] Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects / Meteors

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The Hayabusa, the world first sample-return minor body explorer, came back to the Earth, and reentered into the Earth's atmosphere on June 13, 2010. Following the reentries of the Genesis in 2004 and the Stardust in 2006, the return of the Hayabusa Sample Return Capsule (H-SRC) was the third direct reentry event from the interplanetary transfer orbit to the Earth at a velocity of over 11.2 km/s. In addition, it was the world first case of the direct reentry of the spacecraft (H-S/C) itself from the interplanetary transfer orbit. The H-SRC and the H-S/C reentries are very good analogue for studying bolide size meteors and meteorite falls. We, therefore, conducted a ground observation campaign for aspects of meteor sciences. We carried out multi-site ground observations of the Hayabusa reentry in the Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA), Australia. The observations were configured with optical imaging with still and video recordings, spectroscopies, and shockwave detection with infrasound and seismic sensors. In this study, we report details of the infrasound/seismic observations and those results. To detect shockwaves from the H-SRC and the H-S/C, we installed three small aperture infrasound/seismic arrays as the main stations. In addition, we also installed three single component seismic sub stations and an audible sound recorder. The infrasound and seismic sensors clearly recorded sonic boom type shockwaves from the H-SRC and disrupted fragments of the H-S/C itself. The audible recording also detected those shockwave sounds in the human audible band. Positive overpressure values of shockwaves (corresponding to the H-SRC) recorded at three main stations are 1.3 Pa, 1.0 Pa, and 0.7 Pa with the slant distance of 36.9 km, 54.9 km, and 67.8 km (i.e., the source altitude of 36.5 km, 38.9km, and 40.6 km), respectively. These amplitudes of shockwave overpressures are systematically smaller than those of theoretical predictions. We tried to identify the sources of shockwaves signals from the disrupted fragments as optically identified fragments of the H-S/C. In comparison between the infrasonic pressure waves and the video image analyses, the generation of sonic boom type shockwaves by the both of the H-SRC and fragmented parts of the H-S/C at an altitude of 40±1 km was confirmed with one-to-one correspondence with each other. The incident vectors of the shockwave from the H-SRC at all the three arrays are estimated by F-K spectrum and agree well with predicted ones. Particle motions of ground motions excited by the shockwave from the H-SRC show characteristics of typical Rayleigh wave. In addition, we examine the relationship between amplitudes of those ground motions and overpressure values correspond to the H-SRC. We compare amplitudes of ground motions detected by seismometers to theoretical estimations of air-to-ground coupling. In calculations, we have used amplitudes of observed overpressures by infrasound sensors as incident pressure waves and elastic moduli of each site are obtained by H/V spectrum analysis. The observed amplitudes of the ground motions are almost consistent with the theoretical estimations.

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