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Hayabusa2 Sample Catcher and Container: Metal-Seal System for Vacuum Encapsulation of Returned Samples with Volatiles and Organic Compounds Recovered from C-Type Asteroid Ryugu

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The spacecraft Hayabusa2 was launched on December 3, 2014, to collect and return samples from a C-type asteroid, 162173 Ryugu (provisional designation, 1999 JU3). It is expected that the samples collected contain organic matter and water-bearing minerals and have key information to elucidate the origin and history of the Solar System and the evolution of bio-related organics prior to delivery to the early Earth. In order to obtain samples with volatile species without terrestrial contamination, based on lessons learned from the Hayabusa mission, the sample catcher and container of Hayabusa2 were refined from those used in Hayabusa. The improvements include (1) a mirror finish of the inner wall surface of the sample catcher and the container, (2) adoption of an aluminum metal sealing system, and (3) addition of a gas-sampling interface for gas collection and evacuation. The former two improvements were made to limit contamination of the samples by terrestrial atmosphere below 1 Pa after the container is sealed. The gas-sampling interface will be used to promptly collect volatile species released from the samples in the sample container after sealing of the container. These improvements maintain the value of the returned samples.

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We thank the two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments which improved the clarity of the paper. K. N. acknowledges the Ministry of Science, ICT and Planning (MSIP) of Korea, for supporting preparation of the paper.

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  1. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan

    Ryuji Okazaki

  2. Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, 3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, 252-5210, Japan

    Hirotaka Sawada & Kanako Sakamoto

  3. Research Equipment Development Center of Science Faculty, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan

    Shinji Yamanouchi

  4. Department of Natural History Sciences, Hokkaido University, N10W8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan

    Shogo Tachibana

  5. Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0032, Japan

    Yayoi N. Miura

  6. Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, 237-0061, Japan

    Yoshinori Takano

  7. SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Sagamihara, Kanagawa, 252-5210, Japan

    Masanao Abe

  8. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, 252-5210, Japan

    Masanao Abe & Hajime Yano

  9. Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawaoiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan

    Shoichi Itoh

  10. Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, G1-17, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama, 226-8503, Japan

    Keita Yamada

  11. Department of Earth and Space Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, Japan

    Hikaru Yabuta

  12. Department of Planetology, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, 1-1, Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8501, Japan

    Chisato Okamoto

  13. Faculty of Arts and Science, Kyushu University, 744, Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan

    Takaaki Noguchi

  14. Department of the Earth and Planetary Material Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8578, Japan

    Tomoki Nakamura

  15. Division of Polar Earth-System Sciences, KOPRI (Korea Polar Research Institute), 26 Songdomirae-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, 21990, Korea

    Keisuke Nagao

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Okazaki, R., Sawada, H., Yamanouchi, S. et al. Hayabusa2 Sample Catcher and Container: Metal-Seal System for Vacuum Encapsulation of Returned Samples with Volatiles and Organic Compounds Recovered from C-Type Asteroid Ryugu. Space Sci Rev 208, 107–124 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-016-0289-5

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