Tag: Kamo`oalewa
Study reveals origin of four-million-year-old ‘potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid’
Researchers describe how the ancient asteroid was ejected from the moon following a massive strike from an even larger ‘impactor’ that left an crater on the lunar surface measuring 14-miles wide in diameter.
Kamo`oalewa: Near-Earth Asteroid orbiting Terra may have broken off from our moon
Scientists estimate that the asteroid has been orbiting our sun near Earth as our second moon for about 500 years