Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2016

Convener:*Taishi Nakamoto(Tokyo Institute of Technology), Kiyoshi Kuramoto(Department of Cosmosciences, Graduate School of Sciences, Hokkaido University), Sei-ichiro WATANABE(Division of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University), MASATERU ISHIGURO(Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University), Masahiko Arakawa(Graduate School of Science, Kobe University), Masanao Abe(Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Tomoko Arai(Planetary Exploration Research Center, Chiba Institute of Technology), Sho Sasaki(Department of Earth and Space Sciences, School of Science, Osaka University), Chair:Tomoko Arai(Planetary Exploration Research Center, Chiba Institute of Technology)

Small solar system bodies, including asteroids, comets, satellites,inter-planetary dust particles, and planetesimals, are important objects:their current state is interesting, and they provide lots of information on the origin and evolution of our solar system for us. In this session, a variety of papers on small solar system bodies are presented. Studies based on various kinds of approaches such as space missions, measurements,laboratory experiments, numerical simulations, and theoretical works are discussed. Through those discussions, our understanding of the solar system formation and evolution should be progressed. In 2016, the Mars satellite sample return mission is paid special attention, though all the topics on the small solar system bodies are welcome.