Skip to main content
Earth, Planets and Space
Download PDF

Volume 53 Supplement 11

Special Issue: Asteroidal Surfaces and Genesis of Meteorites

  • Article
  • Published:

Multi-band imaging camera and its sciences for the Japanese near-earth asteroid mission MUSES-C

Earth, Planets and Space volume 53, pages 1047–1063 (2001)Cite this article

Abstract

In this paper we present current development status of our Asteroid Multi-band Imaging CAmera (AMICA) for the Japan-US joint asteroid sample return mission MUSES-C. The launch of the spacecraft is planned around the end of 2002 and the whole mission period till sample retrieval on Earth will be approximately five years. The nominal target is the asteroid 1998SF36, one of the Amor-type asteroids. The AMICA specifications for the mission are shown here along with its ground-based and inflight calibration methods. We also describe the observational scenario at the asteroid, in relation to scientific goals.

References

  • Belton, M. J., J. Veverka, P. Thomas, P. Helfenstein, D. Simonelli, C. Chapman, M. E. Davies, R. Greeley, R. Greenberg, J. Head, S. Murchie, K. Klaasen, T. V. Johnson, A. McEwen, D. Morrison, G. Neukum, F. Fanale, C. Anger, M. Carr, and C. Pilcher, Galileo encounter with 951 Gaspra: First pictures of an asteroid, Science, 257, 1647–1652, 1992.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Belton, M. J., B. E. A. Mueller, L. A. D’Amario, D. V. Byrnes, K. P. Klaasen, S. Synnott, H. Breneman, T. V. Johnson, P. C. Thomas, J. Veverka, A. P. Harch, M. E. Davies, W. J. Merline, C. R. Chapman, D. Davis, T. Denk, G. Neukum, J.-M. Petit, R. Greenberg, A. Stoors, and B. Zellner, The discovery and orbit of 1993 (243)1 Dactyl, Icarus, 120, 185–199, 1996.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Burns, J. A. and V. S. Safronov, Asteroid nutation angles, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 165, 403, 1973.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chanan, C. A. and D. J. Helfand, Optical polarization of the Crab-like supernova remnant 0540-693 in the large Magellanic cloud, Astrophys. J., 352, 167–171, 1990.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chapman, C. R., S-type asteroids, ordinary chondrites, and space weathering: The evidence from Galileo’s fly-bys of Gaspra and Ida, Meteorit. Planet. Sci., 31, 699–725, 1996.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Clark, B. E., J. Veverka, P. Helfenstein, P. C. Thomas, J. F. Bell, III, A. Harch, M. S. Robinson, S. L. Murchie, L. A. McFadden, and C. R. Chapman, Near photometry of asteroid 253 Mathilde, Icarus, 140, 53–65, 1999.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dollfus, A., Lunar surface imaging polarimetry: I. Roughness and grain size, Icarus, 136, 69–103, 1998.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gaffey, M. J., Spectral reflectance characteristics of the meteorite classes, J. Geophys. Res., 81, 905–919, 1976.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hapke, B., Theory of Reflectance and Emittance Spectroscopy, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK, 1993.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Harris, A. W., Tumbling asteroids, Icarus, 107, 209–211, 1994.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hartman, B. and D. Domingue, Scattering of light by individual particles and the implications for models of planetary surfaces, Icarus, 131, 421–448, 1998.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Helfenstein, P., J. Veverka, P. C. Thomas, D. P. Simonelli, P. Lee, K. Klaasen, T. V. Johnson, H. Breneman, J. Head, S. Murchie, F. Fanale, M. Robinson, B. E. Clark, J. Granahan, H. Garbeil, A. S. McEwen, R. Kirk, M. Davies, G. Neukum, S. Mottola, R. Wagner, M. Belton, C. Chapman, and C. Pilcher, Galileo photometry of asteroid 951 Gaspra, Icarus, 107, 37–60, 1994.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Helfenstein, P., J. Veveraka, P. C. Thomas, D. P. Simonelli, K. Klaasen, T. V. Johnson, F. Fanale, J. Granahan, A. S. McEwen, M. Belton, and C. Chapman, Galileo photometry of asteroid 243 Ida, Icarus, 120, 48–65, 1996.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hiroi, T., C. M. Pieters, M. E. Zolensky, and M. E. Lipschutz, Possible thermal metamorphism on the C, G, B, and F asteroids detected from their reflectance spectra in comparison with carbonaceous chondrites, Proc. NIPR Symp. Antarct. Meteorites, 7, 230–243, 1994.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hudson, R. S. and S. J. Ostro, Shape and non-principal axis spin state of asteroid 4179 Toutatis, Science, 270, 84–86, 1995.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ishimoto, H., Formation of Phobos and Deimos dust rings, Icarus, 122, 153–165, 1996.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kamei, A., Laboratory study of laser-scattered light by rough surfaces, Ph.D. Thesis, Kobe University, 2000.

  • Kamei, A. and A. M. Nakamura, Laboratory study of bidirectional reflectance of powdered surfaces: On the asymmetry parameter of asteroid photometric data, Icarus, 2000 (submitted).

  • Kawaguchi, J. and K. Uesugi, Technology development status of the MUSES-C sample and return project, IAF-99-IAA.11.2.02, 50th International Astronautical Congress, pp. 1–9, Oct. 4–8, 1999, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1999.

  • Kopal, Z., The Moon in the Post-Apollo Era, 223 pp., D. Reidel Publ. Co., 1974.

  • Moulton, F. R., An Introduction to Celestial Mechanics, Chap. 8, MacMillan Co., 1914.

  • Mukai, T., H. Araki, T. Mizuno, N. Hatanaka, A. M. Nakamura, A. Kamei, H. Nakayama, and A. Cheng, Detection of mass, shape, surface roughness of target asteroid of MUSES-C by LIDAR, Adv. Space Res., 2001 (in press).

  • Nakamura, T., Dust cloud enhancement around small celestial bodies due to meteor stream impacts: Application to asteroid mission, in Dynamics of Comets and Asteroids and Their Role in Earth History, edited by S. Yabushita and J. Henrard, pp. 255–265, Kluwer Acad. Pub., Dordrecht, 1998.

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Nakamura, T., S. Okamura, T. Aoki, and G. Sasaki, Polarization map and dust jet of comet Austin, the 24th Lunar and Planet. Sympo., pp. 141–147, edited by H. Mizutani, the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Sagamihara, 1991.

  • Saito, J. and H. Akiyama, A model of Phobos and its application to simulation study for asteroid imaging, Lunar and Planet. Sci. XXVII, 1123–1124 (abstract), 1996.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tedesco, E. F., D. J. Tholen, B. Zellner, The eight-color asteroid survey: Standard stars, Astron. J., 87, 1587–1592, 1982.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tholen, D. J., Asteroid taxonomy from cluster analysis of photometry, Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Arizona, 1984.

  • Veverka, J., P. C. Thomas, P. Helfenstein, P. Lee, A. Harch, S. Calvo, C. Chapman, M. J. S. Belton, K. Klaasen, T. V. Johnson, and M. Davies, Dactyl: Galileo observations of Ida’s satellite, Icarus, 120, 200–211, 1996.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Veverka, J., M. Robinson, P. Thomas, S. Murchie, J. F. Bell, III, N. Izenberg, C. Chapman, A. Harch, M. Bell, B. Carcich, A. Cheng, B. Clark, D. Domingue, D. Dunham, R. Farquhar, M. J. Gaffey, E. Hawkins, J. Joseph, R. Kirk, H. Li, P. Lucey, M. Malin, P. Martin, L. McFadden, W. J. Merline, J. K. Miller, W. M. Owen, Jr., L. Peterson, J. Warren, D. Wellnitz, B. G. Williams, and D. K. Yoemans, NEAR at Eros: Imaging and spectral results, Science, 289, 2088–2097, 2000.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Vilas, F. and M. V. Sykes, Are low-albedo asteroids thermally metamorphosed?, Icarus, 124, 483–489, 1996.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Yamada, M., S. Sasaki, H. Nagahara, A. Fujiwara, S. Hasegawa, H. Yano, T. Hiroi, H. Ohashi, and H. Otake, Simulation of space weathering of planet-forming materials: Nanosecond pulse laser irradiation and proton implantation on olivine and pyroxene samples, Earth Planets Space, 51(11), 1255–1265, 1999.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zellner, B., D. J. Tholen, and E. F. Tedesco, The eight-color asteroid survey: Results for 589 minor planets, Icarus, 61, 355–416, 1985.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. National Astronomical Observatory, Mitaka, Tokyo, 181-8588, Japan

    Tsuko Nakamura

  2. Kobe University, Rokkoudai, Nada, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan

    Akiko M Nakamura

  3. Nishimatsu Construction Co., Shimo-tsuruma, Yamato, Kanagawa, 242-8520, Japan

    Jun Saito & Hiroaki Akiyama

  4. Department of Geophysics, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan

    Sho Sasaki & Hiroaki Akiyama

  5. Earth Observation Research Center, NASDA, Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, 106-0032, Japan

    Ryosuke Nakamura

  6. Lunar Mission Laboratory, NASDA, Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8505, Japan

    Hirohide Demura

  7. Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96822, USA

    David Tholen

Authors
  1. Tsuko Nakamura
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Akiko M Nakamura
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Jun Saito
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Sho Sasaki
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Ryosuke Nakamura
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. Hirohide Demura
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  7. Hiroaki Akiyama
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  8. David Tholen
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Consortia

AMICA team

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Tsuko Nakamura.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Nakamura, T., Nakamura, A.M., Saito, J. et al. Multi-band imaging camera and its sciences for the Japanese near-earth asteroid mission MUSES-C. Earth Planet Sp 53, 1047–1063 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03351703

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Revised:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03351703

Keywords