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Luminescence Spectroscopical Properties of Plagioclase Particles from the Hayabusa Sample Return Mission: An Implication for Study of Space Weathering Processes in the Asteroid Itokawa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2017

Arnold Gucsik ,
Tomoki Nakamura ,
Cornelia Jäger ,
Kiyotaka Ninagawa ,
Hirotsugu Nishido ,
Masahiro Kayama ,
Akira Tsuchiyama ,
Ulrich Ott  and
Ákos Kereszturi
Arnold Gucsik*
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, 2600 Auckland Park, South Africa Department of Applied and Nonlinear Optics, Wigner Research Institute for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Konkoly-Thege M. út 29-33, 1121 Budapest, Hungary
Tomoki Nakamura
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Planetary Materials Science, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
Cornelia Jäger
Affiliation:
Laboratory Astrophysics and Cluster Physics Group at the Institute of Solid State Physics Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Helmholtzweg 3, D-07745 Jena, Germany
Kiyotaka Ninagawa
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Physics, Okayama University of Science, 1-1 Ridai-cho, Kita-ku, Okayama, 700-0005, Japan
Hirotsugu Nishido
Affiliation:
Department of Biosphere-Geosphere System Science, Okayama University of Science, 1-1 Ridai-cho, Okayama, 700-0005, Japan
Masahiro Kayama
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Planetary Material Sciences, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University Creative Interdisciplinary Research Division, Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tohoku University, Aramaki aza Aoba 6-3, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
Akira Tsuchiyama
Affiliation:
Division of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Faculty of Science, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawaoiwake-cho, Sakyu-ku, Kyoto-shi 606-8502, Japan
Ulrich Ott
Affiliation:
Savaria University Center, University of West Hungary, Karolyi Gaspar ter 4, Szombathely, H-9700, Hungary
Ákos Kereszturi
Affiliation:
Astronomical Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Konkoly-Thege M. út 29-33, 1121, Budapest, Hungary
*
*Corresponding author.sopronianglicus@gmail.com
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Abstract

We report a systematic spectroscopical investigation of three plagioclase particles (RB-QD04-0022, RA-QD02-0025-01, and RA-QD02-0025-02) returned by the Hayabusa spacecraft from the asteroid Itokawa, by means of scanning electron microscopy, cathodoluminescence microscopy/spectroscopy, and micro-Raman spectroscopy. The cathodoluminescence properties are used to evaluate the crystallization effects and the degree of space weathering processes, especially the shock-wave history of Itokawa. They provide new insights regarding spectral changes of asteroidal bodies due to space weathering processes. The cathodoluminescence spectra of the plagioclase particles from Itokawa show a defect-related broad band centered at around 450 nm, with a shoulder peak at 425 nm in the blue region, but there are no Mn- or Fe-related emission peaks. The absence of these crystal field-related activators indicates that the plagioclase was formed during thermal metamorphism at subsolidus temperature and extreme low oxygen fugacity. Luminescence characteristics of the selected samples do not show any signatures of the shock-induced microstructures or amorphization, indicating that these plagioclase samples suffered no (or low-shock pressure regime) shock metamorphism. Cathodoluminescence can play a key role as a powerful tool to determine mineralogy of fine-grained astromaterials.

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asteroidspace weatheringmineralogycathodoluminescencemicro-Raman spectroscopy
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Materials Applications
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , February 2017 , pp. 179 - 186
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© Microscopy Society of America 2017 

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