DESCRIPTION |
Small Carry-on Impactor (SCI) is a deployable instrument for creating artificial crater on asteroid by impacting a liner. The liner is 2 kg copper lump, because copper can be easily separated from the asteroid's sample. By ignition of an explosive, liner will be ejected at a high speed, about 2 km/s, and while chaging its shape. This experiment will enable us to access subsurface materials which will not be affected by space weathering.
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REFERENCES |
T. Saiki, H. Imamura, M. Arakawa, K. Wada, Y. Takagi, M. Hayakawa, K. Shirai, H. Yano, C. Okamoto,
The Small Carry-on Impactor (SCI) and the Hayabusa2 Impact Experiment,
Space Sci. Rev., 208, 165-186, 2017.
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