Scientists say they’ve traced the origins of a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid to the far side of the moon
Rare near-Earth asteroid Kamo’oalewa may have been created several million years ago when something slammed into the moon and ...
Asteroid hunters spot 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids — more than were discovered by all of the world’s telescopes last year
Asteroid hunters have identified 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids using cutting-edge tech that could potentially stave ...
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Scientists determine near-Earth asteroid was blasted from moon, leaving crater
The crater is on the far side of the moon, the part of the moon Earth never sees. 2016 HO3 is considered a near-Earth ...
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Near-Earth asteroid was once part of the moon, scientists say. And now they’ve found the crater it left behind
(CNN) — An unusual asteroid traveling near Earth is thought to be a chunk of the moon ... Measuring between 150 and 190 feet (46 and 58 meters) in diameter, Kamo’oalewa is about half the size of the ...
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Look up (with a telescope): 2,000-foot long asteroid to pass by earth Monday
A 2,000-foot asteroid is set to pass by earth Monday morning and if you don't catch it now, you'll have to wait more than a year to see it again. But you are going to need a telescope to see the ...
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Earth’s New ‘Second Moon’ Is As Big As The Statue Of Liberty—And Scientists Just Found Its Origin
Kamo’oalewa is a quasi-satellite of Earth because it appears to orbit Earth ... it was caused by an asteroid about 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) in diameter striking the moon between 1 million and ...
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Earth's weird 'quasi-moon' Kamo'oalewa is a fragment blasted out of big moon crater
Kamo'oalewa, a 131- to 328-foot-wide (40 to 100 meters) near-Earth object (NEO), was liberated by an asteroid impact between 1 million and 10 million years ago, a smashup that created the moon's ...
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New Research Points to Violent Origin of Enigmatic Earth 'Quasi-Moon'
Image: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University For nearly a decade, a near-Earth asteroid ... orbit as Earth’s. Previous research suggested that Kamo’oalewa may have originated from the Moon ...
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'Asteroid Kamo'oalewa: An extra Moon may be orbiting Earth'
scientists suggest that asteroid 469219 Kamo'oalewa, which shares its orbit with Earth, might actually be a fragment from the moon. This hypothesis is grounded in the discovery that Kamo'oalewa's ...