RyuguSampleAO Accepted Proposals

Accepted proposals of the Ryugu Sample 2nd AO

PI	Affiliation	Proposal
Adrian John Brearley	University of New Mexico	Micro and nanostructural mineralogic, isotopic, and spectroscopic studies of Ryugu samples
Akira Tsuchiyama	Ritsumeikan University	A systematic study of magnetite crystal morphologies in Ryugu samples: investigation of aqueous alteration in Ryugu parent body
Ann N Nguyen	NASA JSC	Presolar and early solar system materials preserved in Ryugu samples
Bradley T De Gregorio	U.S. Naval Research Laboratory	Organic Functional Chemistry Variations of Ryugu Carbonaceous Grains and Diffuse Matter
Cateline Lantz	Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale	Exploring space weathering on Ryugu through ion irradiation
Christian Vollmer	University of Muenster	The nano-scale functional chemistry of Ryugu organic matter investigated by low-dose high-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy
Daisuke Nakashima	Tohoku University	Chondrules and CAIs in the Ryugu samples: constraints on the radial outward transport process in the solar nebula
Ernesto Palomba	INAF	PRAWNS - Primitive Asteroid Weathering: New Studies
Frank E. Brenker	Goethe University Frankfurt	Magnetite-Apatite Veins
George D Cody	Earth and Planets Laboratory	1H Solid State NMR of Ryugu Powder Samples: Attaining a refined molecular understanding of Insoluble Organic Matter from a C-Type Asteroid
George James Flynn	State Univ New York-Plattsburgh	Microscale Phosphorus and Sulfur Mineralogy to Explore Fluid Chemistry During Aqueous Alteration of Ryugu
Gerardo Dominguez	California State University San Marcos	Nanoscale Coordinated Studies of Ryugu Samples
Haolan Tang	University of Science and Technology of China	K isotopic anomalies constrain the MVE source of Ryugu
Henner Busemann	ETH Zurich	Trapped and cosmogenic noble gases in various samples brought back by JAXA from Ryugu
Hideko Nomura	National Astronomical Observatory of Japan	Molecular and isotopic links in organic matter from protoplanetary disks to Ryugu samples
Hope A. Ishii	University of Hawaii at Manoa	Exploration of GEMS-like material and space weathering features in Ryugu grains
Hugues Leroux	Univ Lille, France	FIB sections requests for further advanced microscopy analyses (Vibrational-EELS, 4D-STEM and STXM)
James Greenwood	Wesleyan University	Isotopic studies of phosphate minerals in Ryugu
Jamie Gilmour	The University of Manchester	Halogen and I-Xe analyses of Ryugu material
Jennika Greer	University of Glasgow	Nanoscale investigation of space weathered Ryugu grains using atom probe tomography
Jerome Gattacceca	CEREGE, CNRS	The magnetic record of Ryugu's samples
Johanna Marin Carbonne	University of Lausanne	Constraining Fluid alteration on Ryugu from the Analyses of Volatiles and their Isotopes
John Bridges	University of Leicester	Electron Microscopy and Nanodiffraction Studies of Phyllosilicate in Ryugu and CI Chondrites
Junya Matsuno	Ritsumeikan University	Porosity measurement of Ryugu particles and direct observation of pores in phyllosilicates
Kazuhiko Ninomiya	Osaka University	Verification of differences in the chemical composition of samples from chambers A and C by muon non-destructive analysis.
Keita Yamada	Tokyo Tech	Analyses of Low-Molecular-Weight Organic Compounds in Asteroid Ryugu
Kunihiko Nishiizumi	Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley	Study of exposure history of Ryugu surface-2
Masaaki Miyahara	Hiroshima University	Terrestrial weathering process at an early stage of Ryugu grains
Michael E Zolensky	NASA JSC	Measurement of the composition of aqueous fluids for Ryugu's parent asteroid
Rhonda Stroud	Arizona State University	Transmission Electron Microscopy of Presolar SiC and Mineral-Organic Relationships
Richard John Walker	University of Maryland	Acquisition of Ryugu Aggregate Samples for Siderophile Element Analysis Including Os and Mo Isotopic Compositions
Sujoy Mukhopadhyay	University of Davis California	Combined noble gas, major volatiles and chromium isotopic analyses to constrain the history of Ryugu
Takaaki Noguchi	Kyoto University	A combined study of fine-grained space-weathered Ryugu grains.
Tetsuya Yokoyama	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Origin of Cr isotopic variability in Ryugu samples
Thorsten Kleine	MPI for Solar System Research	Mo, Ge, and Te isotopic investigation of Ryugu
Tomoki Nakamura	Tohoku University	Early history of Ryugu's parent asteroid inferred from mineralogical and isotope signatures
Toru Nakahashi	Hiroshima University	The estimation of shock metamorphism in Ryugu grains based on the shock experiments of CI chondrite
Yoshiaki Sugimoto	University of Tokyo	Submolecular imaging of individual organic molecules in Ryugu samples using atomic force microscopy

Accepted proposals of the Ryugu Sample 1st AO

PI	Affiliation	Proposal
Alessandro Maturilli	DLR	Bridging the gap - linking remote sensing, in-situ and laboratory spectroscopy
Bernard Marty	CNRS/Univer site de Lorraine	Exploring the heterogeneity of noble gas and nitrogen in Ryugu samples
Cyrena Anne Goodrich	LPI, USRA-Houston	Ryugu and the Diversity of CI-like Materials in the Early Solar System
Danielle Ziva Shulaker	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Snapshots of our origins: The pre-solar to post-planetary formation epoch of the Solar System
Elena Dobrica	University of Hawaii	Coordinated micro- and nano-analyses of phyllosilicate matrices and carbonates in Ryugu samples using FIB-TEM and SIMS techniques
Emmanuel Dartois	Institut des Sciences Moleculaires d'ORSAY	Submicron combined Analysis of Ryugu samples. Comparison with micrometeorites.
Francois-Regis Orthous-Daunay	University Grenoble Alpes	Search for multiple sources of organic molecular complexity
Frank E. Brenker	Goethe University Frankfurt	In depth REE and trace element study of Ca-rich phases by means of synchrotron XRF
Frank Wombacher	Universitat zu Koln/Germany	Elemental composition by ICP-MS: Ryugu sample heterogeneity and direct comparison to CI chondrites
Hajime Yano	JAXA/ISAS	Evaluation of Material Modification and Collection Biases for Micrometeorite Samples in the Terrestrial Environment with Indigenous Asteroidal Samples
Hassan Sabbah	IRAP, Universite de Toulouse, CNRS	The origin and evolution of large carbonaceous molecules in our solar system
Hiroharu Yui	Tokyo University of Science	Lower frequency & fluorescence-reduced Raman scattering imaging of sulfides, phyllosilicates, carbonates, and carbons on Ryugu surfaces for their chemical states analyses
Hitesh G Changela	JIPC, Czech Academy of Sciences	Investigating the Evolution of Macromolecular Organic Material from Asteroid 162173 Ryugu
Imene Kerraouch	Institut fur Planetologie, University of Munster/ NASA JSC	Research on C1-related material: Ryugu samples in comparison to C1 extraterrestrial lithologies.
Jerome Aleon	IMPMC, MNHN, CNRS	Ryugu's insights on the origin of water in planetary materials
Jerome Gattacceca	CEREGE, CNRS	A wide magnetic survey of Ryugu samples
Jose Carlos Aponte	NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center	Characterization of cyanide in Ryugu: A deadly precursor of life on Earth
Joseph L Kirschvink	Caltech, USA/ Kochi University, Japan	A search for magnetic monopoles using the unique opportunities provided by the returned samples from asteroid Ryugu
Kentaro Terada	Osaka University	In-situ analysis of U-Th-Pb systematics of Ryugu apatite: Chronological search for traces of subsequent alteration
Ko Hashizume	Ibaraki University	Volatile evolution in primitive asteroid Ryugu deciphered from in-grain multi-volatile distribution studies including nitrogen isotope
Kunihiko Nishiizumi	SSL, University of California, Berkeley	Study of exposure history of Ryugu surface
Larry R Nittler	Carnegie Institution of Washington	NanoSIMS isotopic characterization of presolar and organic materials in Ryugu
Lydie BONAL	IPAG (Grenoble, France)	Investigation of the N-bearing materials in Hayabusa2 samples
Maitrayee Bose	Arizona State University	Characterization of Organosulfurs to Constrain the Thermal and Chemical History of Ryugu
Marco Ferrari	Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology	Investigating the ammonium-bearing phase in Ryugu samples and tracing the evolution process of C-type asteroids
Mehmet Yesiltas	Kirklareli University	Nanoscale Characterization of Organic Matter and Mineral Species in Hayabusa2 Samples
Michelle Thompson	Purdue University	Understanding Space Weathering of Samples from Asteroid Ryugu
Nicholas Erik Timms	Curtin University	Where does mineralogical and isotopic heterogeneity of Ryugu samples meet monotonic solar chemistry?
Queenie Chan	Royal Holloway University of London	Water and organics of Ryugu
Rosario Brunetto	IAS, CNRS, Universite Paris-Saclay	Evolution processes of Ryugu, from aqueous alteration to space weathering
Scott Alan Sandford	NASA Ames Research Center	Infrared Spectral Mapping Study of Organics in Ryugu Samples
Seiji Sugita	University of Tokyo	Microscopic optical spectrophotometric mapping of Ryugu samples and comparison with composition distribution and space weathering experiments
Takaaki Noguchi	Kyoto University	A combined study of space weathering of the asteroid Ryugu
Takahito Osawa	Japan Atomic Energy Agency	Precise determination of elemental composition for asteroid Ryugu using prompt gamma-ray analysis
Takashi Mikouchi	University of Tokyo	Mineralogy of Ryugu samples: Tracking progressive alteration processes
Tom Zega	University of Arizona	Constraining the Origins of Ryugu Sulfides Through Micro to Atomic-Scale Analysis of Hayabusa2 Particles
Toru Matsumoto	Kyoto University	Investigation of the space weathering features of asteroid Ryugu and its parent body
Trevor R Ireland	University of Queensland	A volatile history of Ryugu
Wataru Fujiya	Ibaraki University	Thermal history and internal structure of the Ryugu parent body constrained from petrological observation, isotope compositions, ages, and theoretical modelling
Yoshio Takahashi	University of Tokyo	Speciation of nitrogen, iron, and carbon by X-ray spectroscopy to reveal the origin and evolution of asteroid Ryugu