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How we can mine asteroids for space food - Volume 23

Nakamura et al. ( Reference Nakamura, Matsumoto, Amano, Enokido, Zolensky, Mikouchi, Genda, Tanaka, Zolotov, Kurosawa, Wakita, Hyodo, Nagano, Nakashima, Takahashi, Fujioka, Kikuiri, Kagawa, Matsuoka, Brearley, Tsuchiyama, Uesugi, Matsuno, Kimura, Sato, Milliken, Tatsumi, Sugita, Hiroi, Kitazato, Brownlee, Joswiak, Takahashi, Ninomiya, Takahashi, Osawa, Terada, Brenker, Tkalcec, Vincze, Brunetto, Aléon-Toppani, Chan, Roskosz, Viennet, Beck, Alp, Michikami, Nagaashi, Tsuji, Ino, Martinez, Han, Dolocan, Bodnar, Tanaka, Yoshida, Sugiyama, King, Fukushi, Suga, Yamashita, Kawai, Inoue, Nakato, Noguchi, Vilas, Hendrix, Jaramillo-Correa, Domingue, Dominguez, Gainsforth, Engrand, Duprat, Russell, Bonato, Ma, Kawamoto, Wada, Watanabe, Endo, Enju, Riu, Rubino, Tack, Takeshita, Takeichi, Takeuchi, Takigawa, Takir, Tanigaki, Taniguchi, Tsukamoto, Yagi, Yamada, Yamamoto, Yamashita, Yasutake, Uesugi, Umegaki, Chiu, Ishizaki, Okumura, Palomba, Pilorget, Potin, Alasli, Anada, Araki, Sakatani, Schultz, Sekizawa, Sitzman, Sugiura, Sun, Dartois, De Pauw, Dionnet, Djouadi, Falkenberg, Fujita, Fukuma, Gearba, Hagiya, Hu, Kato, Kawamura, Kimura, Kubo, Langenhorst, Lantz, Lavina, Lindner, Zhao, Vekemans, Baklouti, Bazi, Borondics, Nagasawa, Nishiyama, Nitta, Mathurin, Matsumoto, Mitsukawa, Miura, Miyake, Miyake, Yurimoto, Okazaki, Yabuta, Naraoka, Sakamoto, Tachibana, Connolly, Lauretta, Yoshitake, Yoshikawa, Yoshikawa, Yoshihara, Yokota, Yogata, Yano, Yamamoto, Yamamoto, Yamada, Yamada, Yada, Wada, Usui, Tsukizaki, Terui, Takeuchi, Takei, Iwamae, Soejima, Shirai, Shimaki, Senshu, Sawada, Saiki, Ozaki, Ono, Okada, Ogawa, Ogawa, Noguchi, Noda, Nishimura, Namiki, Nakazawa, Morota, Miyazaki, Miura, Mimasu, Matsumoto, Kumagai, Kouyama, Kikuchi, Kawahara, Kameda, Iwata, Ishihara, Ishiguro, Ikeda, Hosoda, Honda, Honda, Hitomi, Hirata, Hirata, Hayashi, Hayakawa, Hatakeda, Furuya, Fukai, Fujii, Cho, Arakawa, Abe, Watanabe and Tsuda2023) reported on the in situ occurrence of nanoglobules in the Tagish Lake meteorite. The recent success of two sample return missions – OSIRIS-REx (NASA) and Hyabusa2 (JAXA) – to the NEO asteroids 101955 Bennu and 162173 Ryugu demonstrate that, although technically demanding, it is possible to access such asteroids (Lauretta et al., Reference Lauretta, Balram-Knutson, Beshore, Boynton, Drouet d'Aubigny, DellaGiustina, Enos, Golish, Hergenrother, Howell and Bennett2017; Nakamura et al., Reference Nakamura, Matsumoto, Amano, Enokido, Zolensky, Mikouchi, Genda, Tanaka, Zolotov, Kurosawa, Wakita, Hyodo, Nagano, Nakashima, Takahashi, Fujioka, Kikuiri, Kagawa, Matsuoka, Brearley, Tsuchiyama, Uesugi, Matsuno, Kimura, Sato, Milliken, Tatsumi, Sugita, Hiroi, Kitazato, Brownlee, Joswiak, Takahashi, Ninomiya, Takahashi, Osawa, Terada, Brenker, Tkalcec, Vincze, Brunetto, Aléon-Toppani, Chan, Roskosz, Viennet, Beck, Alp, Michikami, Nagaashi, Tsuji, Ino, Martinez, Han, Dolocan, Bodnar, Tanaka, Yoshida, Sugiyama, King, Fukushi, Suga, Yamashita, Kawai, Inoue, Nakato, Noguchi, Vilas, Hendrix, Jaramillo-Correa, Domingue, Dominguez, Gainsforth, Engrand, Duprat, Russell, Bonato, Ma, Kawamoto, Wada, Watanabe, Endo, Enju, Riu, Rubino, Tack, Takeshita, Takeichi, Takeuchi, Takigawa, Takir, Tanigaki, Taniguchi, Tsukamoto, Yagi, Yamada, Yamamoto, Yamashita, Yasutake, Uesugi, Umegaki, Chiu, Ishizaki, Okumura, Palomba, Pilorget, Potin, Alasli, Anada, Araki, Sakatani, Schultz, Sekizawa, Sitzman, Sugiura, Sun, Dartois, De Pauw, Dionnet, Djouadi, Falkenberg, Fujita, Fukuma, Gearba, Hagiya, Hu, Kato, Kawamura, Kimura, Kubo, Langenhorst, Lantz, Lavina, Lindner, Zhao, Vekemans, Baklouti, Bazi, Borondics, Nagasawa, Nishiyama, Nitta, Mathurin, Matsumoto, Mitsukawa, Miura, Miyake, Miyake, Yurimoto, Okazaki, Yabuta, Naraoka, Sakamoto, Tachibana, Connolly, Lauretta, Yoshitake, Yoshikawa, Yoshikawa, Yoshihara, Yokota, Yogata, Yano, Yamamoto, Yamamoto, Yamada, Yamada, Yada, Wada, Usui, Tsukizaki, Terui, Takeuchi, Takei, Iwamae, Soejima, Shirai, Shimaki, Senshu, Sawada, Saiki, Ozaki, Ono, Okada, Ogawa, Ogawa, Noguchi, Noda, Nishimura, Namiki, Nakazawa, Morota, Miyazaki, Miura, Mimasu, Matsumoto, Kumagai, Kouyama, Kikuchi, Kawahara, Kameda, Iwata, Ishihara, Ishiguro, Ikeda, Hosoda, Honda, Honda, Hitomi, Hirata, Hirata, Hayashi, Hayakawa, Hatakeda, Furuya, Fukai, Fujii, Cho, Arakawa, Abe, Watanabe and Tsuda2023; Potiszil et al., Reference Potiszil, Yamanaka, Sakaguchi, Ota, Kitagawa, Kunihiro, Tanaka, Kobayashi and Nakamura2023). 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