Asteroid Ryugu Sector Globe

Download

• Ryugu sector globe pattern (English) (4.78 MiB PDF file)
• Ryugu sector globe pattern (Japanese) (4.50 MiB PDF file)

History

• 2020-04-01 - Initial release

Dimentions

• Size: 15,0 cm x 15,0 cm x 15,0 cm

Description

Papercraft model of asteroid Ryugu (162173 Ryugu, 1999 JU3) was visited by space probe Hayabusa2 between June 2018 and November 2019.

There are two localized versions of the same pattern as they are represented on the JAXA site.

The polyhedral projection is eight-sided sector globe that resembles asteroid’s “diamond” shape.

Tools

• Blender
• Export Paper Model add-on for Blender
• GIMP2
• OctaGlobe projection by Barry A. Klinger.
• OctaGlobe scripts at GitLab by Postrediori.

Credits

Ryugu map by JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University, University of Aizu, AIST.

• Source for the Japanese version
• Source for the English version