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List of works by Tomokatsu Morota

A pristine record of outer Solar System materials from asteroid Ryugu’s returned sample

scientific article published in 2022

An artificial impact on the asteroid (162173) Ryugu formed a crater in the gravity-dominated regime

scientific article published on 19 March 2020

Asteroid shower on the Earth-Moon system immediately before the Cryogenian period revealed by KAGUYA

scientific article published on 21 July 2020

Hayabusa2 Landing Site Selection: Surface Topography of Ryugu and Touchdown Safety

scientific article published in October 2020

Hayabusa2 arrives at the carbonaceous asteroid 162173 Ryugu-A spinning top-shaped rubble pile

scientific article published on 19 March 2019

Highly porous nature of a primitive asteroid revealed by thermal imaging

scientific article published on 16 March 2020

Images from the surface of asteroid Ryugu show rocks similar to carbonaceous chondrite meteorites

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Lack of exposed ice inside lunar south pole Shackleton Crater

scientific article

Long-lived volcanism on the lunar farside revealed by SELENE Terrain Camera

scientific article

Noble gases and nitrogen in samples of asteroid Ryugu record its volatile sources and recent surface evolution

scientific article published on 24 February 2023

Sample collection from asteroid (162173) Ryugu by Hayabusa2: Implications for surface evolution

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

Samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu are similar to Ivuna-type carbonaceous meteorites

scholarly article

Spin-driven evolution of asteroids' top-shapes at fast and slow spins seen from (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu

scientific article

The geomorphology, color, and thermal properties of Ryugu: Implications for parent-body processes

scientific article published on 19 March 2019

The global distribution of pure anorthosite on the Moon

scientific article published on September 2009

The surface composition of asteroid 162173 Ryugu from Hayabusa2 near-infrared spectroscopy

scientific article published on 19 March 2019

Thermally altered subsurface material of asteroid (162173) Ryugu

scientific article