Article 5RSSK Astronomers Think a Near-Earth Asteroid Is a Chunk of the Moon

Astronomers Think a Near-Earth Asteroid Is a Chunk of the Moon

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Isaac Schultz
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Every April for the next several hundred years, a small asteroid is visible to a select few telescopes on Earth. That asteroid is Kamo`oalewa, a space rock that a team of astronomers says is likely an ancient fragment of our Moon.

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