The Japanese Hayabusa2 spacecraft has been arrived its target asteroid, Ryugu. Remote-sensing observations of the C-type asteroid are on-going. A symposium covering remote-sensing results and overviews of sample return missions being planned by JAXA and other space agencies.

In order to synchronize with current results of planetary material sciences, this symposium is being jointly held with the “41st Symposium on Antarctic Meteorites.” Detailed can be found at: http://www.nipr.ac.jp/symposium2018/