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Earth’s strange ‘moon-like’ Kamo’oalewa is a fragment ejected from large lunar crater

Earth’s “half moon” was likely ejected away from the actual moon relatively recently in the solar system’s history, according to a new study. Kamo’oalewa, a near-Earth object (NEO) 131 to 328 feet wide (40 to 100 meters), was recovered from an asteroid impact between 1 million and 10 million years ago; According to the study,… Read More »