■はやぶさサンプル国際公募開始（2012年1月）についてのお知らせ

はやぶさ探査機により小惑星イトカワで採取され，
2010年地球に持ち帰られたサンプルの，
第1回国際公募研究につきお知らせいたします．

試料は微細粒子で，その回収には大変な労力がかかりましたが，
クリーンチャンバー中で慎重に回収され，
初期分析結果がサイエンス誌8月号 (Science 333巻，p. 1057-1188)に
掲載されました．

第1回国際公募は 2012年1月後半にスタート予定です．
公募に先立ち，以下のサイトにはやぶさ試料研究者ガイドブックを
掲載いたしましたので，感心をお持ちのかたはご覧の上，
研究計画を立案ください．
URL: https://planetb.sci.isas.jaxa.jp/hayabusa/Pre_AO.php


第1回はやぶさサンプル国際公募実行委員会
　委員長　藤本　正樹
　（宇宙航空研究開発機構　宇宙科学研究所）



Pre-A/O Notice: 1st International Announcement of Opportunity for
HAYABUSA Sample Investigation

Dear colleagues, 
The JAXA mission of HAYABUSA returned samples from the asteroid Itokawa in June 2010.
The samples are not in the condition that was anticipated and it has taken some time for 
the curation activity to ramp up. The HAYABUSA samples are in the form of tiny particles. 
While it is a time-consuming effort, the Initial Analysis has been performed by the two 
pre-selected teams and a part of the results has been published in the Science magazine 
in August 2011. Now things are ready for the 1st International Announcement of Opportunity
for HAYABUSA Sample Investigation. Indeed, JAXA plans to issue 1st International Announcement
of Opportunity for HAYABUSA Sample Investigation in late January 2012. 
Those interested in submitting a proposal are invited to visit 
URL: https://planetb.sci.isas.jaxa.jp/hayabusa/Pre_AO.php 
where a preliminary version of HAYABUSA Investigators’ Guidebook is posted. 
The Guidebook is intended to help researchers cultivate their ideas for proposals 
while they wait for the release of A/O.

Masaki Fujimoto, ISAS, JAXA
Chair, Implementation Committee of the 1st International A/O for
HAYABUSA Sample Investigation