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An asteroid will make a close flyby of Earth, and scientists are excited
Quartz· 20 hours agoIn about five years’ time, a potentially hazardous asteroid will swing by Earth at an eerily close...
Scientists Say Something Seems to Have Broken Off the Moon at This Crater
Futurism via Yahoo News· 4 days agoA team of astronomers believes near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, a space rock between 130 and 328...
2,000-foot-wide 'potentially hazardous' asteroid has just made its closest approach to Earth — and...
Live Science via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoThe 2,000-foot-wide asteroid 2013 NK4 just made its closest approach to Earth in recorded history,...
Scientists Identify Near-Earth Asteroid’s Birthplace
ExplorersWeb via Yahoo News· 2 days agoWhen scientists discovered the asteroid Kamo’oalewa in 2016, they almost immediately suspected it might have once been a part of the Moon
An extra moon may be orbiting Earth — and scientists think they know exactly where it came from
Live Science via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, which orbits alongside our planet as a 'minimoon,' may have...
New Research Points to Violent Origin of Enigmatic Earth 'Quasi-Moon'
Gizmodo· 2 days agoFor nearly a decade, a near-Earth asteroid named Kamo’oalewa has invoked speculation over how it...
Computer model helps support theory of asteroid Kamo'oalewa as ejecta from the moon
Phys.org· 4 days agoA small international team of planetary scientists has found evidence supporting the theory that the near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa ...
Earth's weird 'quasi-moon' Kamo'oalewa is a fragment blasted out of big moon crater
SPACE.com· 3 days agoEarth's "quasi-moon" was likely blasted away from the actual moon relatively recently in the solar...
Earth has a ‘seconds Moon’ as scientists identify lunar crater where it once lay
The US Sun· 3 days agoAN asteroid is believed to have broken off the moon and scientists have found additional proof that...
Car-sized Asteroid Whizzes Past Earth, Narrowly Missing Collision
Gadgets 360· 2 weeks agoAstronomers had their hands full when a brand-new asteroid, 2024 GJ2, made an unexpected visit to...