The Origin of Near-Earth Asteroid 1999 JU3

Campins, H.; Morbidelli, A.; de León, J.; Tsiganis, K.; Licandro, J.
Bibliographical reference

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.1365

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2011
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5
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1
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0
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Description
Near-Earth asteroid 161273 (1999 JU3) is the primary target of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hyabusa-2 sample return mission. This object is also considered a potential target for two other sample return missions: the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's OSIRISREx and the European Space Agency's Marco Polo- R. This asteroid is likely to have originated in the main-belt and in this work. Our initial dynamical considerations indicate that the source of 1999 JU3 is in the inner-belt (a < 2.5 AU). We are in the process of using spectral information and albedo to constrain the source further.