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There's a new theory about how one of earth's 'quasi-moons' war born
Quartz· 3 hours agoFor nearly a decade, a near-Earth asteroid named Kamo’oalewa has invoked speculation over how it...
Scientists Identify Near-Earth Asteroid's Birthplace » Explorersweb
Explorersweb· 9 hours agoWhen scientists discovered the asteroid Kamo’oalewa in 2016, they almost immediately suspected it...
NASA HQ picked their best photos of the year. Here are our 13 favorites.
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoThe sample was collected from the carbon rich near Earth asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s...
Minerals are in short supply on Earth. This startup wants to mine asteroids
CNN via AOL· 2 days agoWith minerals in short supply on Earth, private companies such as California-based AstroForge and...
Earth's weird 'quasi-moon' Kamo'oalewa is a fragment blasted out of big moon crater
SPACE.com· 1 day agoEarth's "quasi-moon" was likely blasted away from the actual moon relatively recently in the solar...
An extra moon may be orbiting Earth — and scientists think they know exactly where it came from
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, which orbits alongside our planet as a 'minimoon,' may have...
Citizen scientists spot more than 1,000 new asteroids in old Hubble Telescope photos
Space via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoCitizen scientists poring over old Hubble Telescope photos discovered a thousand previously unknown ...
Earth has a ‘seconds Moon’ as scientists identify lunar crater where it once lay
The US Sun· 1 day agoKamo’oalewa was discovered in 2016 after a group of scientists from around the world came together...
Scientists Say Something Seems to Have Broken Off the Moon at This Crater
Futurism via Yahoo News· 2 days agoA team of astronomers believes near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, a space rock between 130 and 328...
Computer model helps support theory of asteroid Kamo'oalewa as ejecta from the moon
Phys.org· 2 days agoA small international team of planetary scientists has found evidence supporting the theory that the near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa ...