Evidence builds that Kamo’oalewa is a chunk of the Moon following Earth

Normally, near-Earth objects (NEOs) are either asteroids or comets that are gravitationally influenced enough by nearby planets to enter Earth’s neighborhood. However, in April 2016, a group of astronomers discovered a near-Earth “asteroid” named Kamo’oalewa (pronounced kamo-o-a-lewa) and provisionally designated (469219) 2016 HO3, that appeared to be an outlier compositionally. Fast forward five years andContinue reading “Evidence builds that Kamo’oalewa is a chunk of the Moon following Earth”
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