Spectral type and geometric albedo of (98943) 2001 CC21, the Hayabusa2# mission target

Jooyeon Geem; Masateru Ishiguro; Mikael Granvik; Hiroyuki Naito; Hiroshi Akitaya; Tomohiko Sekiguchi; Sunao Hasegawa; Daisuke Kuroda; Tatsuharu Oono; Yoonsoo P. Bach; Sunho Jin; Ryo Imazawa; Koji S. Kawabata; Seiko Takagi; Makoto Yoshikawa; Anlaug A. Djupvik; Julie Thiim Gadeberg; Tapio Pursimo; Oliver Durfeldt Pedros; Jeppe Sinkbaek Thomsen; Zuri Gray

doi:10.1093/mnrasl/slad073

Spectral type and geometric albedo of (98943) 2001 CC₂₁, the Hayabusa2# mission target

Jooyeon Geem^*, Masateru Ishiguro^*, Mikael Granvik, Hiroyuki Naito, Hiroshi Akitaya, Tomohiko Sekiguchi, Sunao Hasegawa, Daisuke Kuroda, Tatsuharu Oono, Yoonsoo P. Bach, Sunho Jin, Ryo Imazawa, Koji S. Kawabata, Seiko Takagi, Makoto Yoshikawa, Anlaug A. Djupvik, Julie Thiim Gadeberg, Tapio Pursimo, Oliver Durfeldt Pedros, Jeppe Sinkbaek ThomsenZuri Gray

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We conducted optical polarimetry and near-infrared spectroscopy of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)'s Hayabusa2# mission target, (98943) 2001 CC21, in early 2023. Our new observations indicate that this asteroid has a polarimetric inversion angle of ∼20°, absorption bands around 0.9 and 1.9 μm, and a geometric albedo of 0.23 ± 0.04. All these features are consistent with those of S types but inconsistent with L types. Based on this evidence, we conclude that JAXA's Hayabusa2# spacecraft will explore an S-type asteroid (more specifically, an L or LL chondrite-like object) with albedo and size (0.44-0.53 km when we assume the absolute magnitude of 18.8) similar to (25143) Itokawa.

Original language	English
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Volume	525
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	L17-L21
ISSN	1745-3925
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slad073
Publication status	Published - 2023

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Minor planets, asteroids: individual: (98943) 2001 CC
Techniques: polarimetric
Techniques: spectroscopic

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Geem, J., Ishiguro, M., Granvik, M., Naito, H., Akitaya, H., Sekiguchi, T., Hasegawa, S., Kuroda, D., Oono, T., Bach, Y. P., Jin, S., Imazawa, R., Kawabata, K. S., Takagi, S., Yoshikawa, M., Djupvik, A. A., Gadeberg, J. T., Pursimo, T., Pedros, O. D., ... Gray, Z. (2023). Spectral type and geometric albedo of (98943) 2001 CC₂₁, the Hayabusa2# mission target. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 525(1), L17-L21. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slad073

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