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The near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, which orbits alongside our planet as a 'minimoon,' may have originated from Giordano Bruno crater on the far side of the moon, new research suggests.
A speedy asteroid orbiting in time with Earth is likely to be a wayward chunk of the Moon.As of now, scientists speculate that they know exactly about which lunar crater it came from.Published on...
A near-earth asteroid (NEA) called Kamo'oalewa is orbiting us as a "minimoon" and scientists said Friday that they may know its origin story.
A team of astronomers believes near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, a space rock between 130 and 328 feet in diameter, once belonged to the Moon. More specifically, they suggest the rock was gouged from a specific crater on the far side of the Moon called the Giordano Bruno crater, named after a 16th-century Italian cosmological theorist. […]