Earth’s strange ‘quasi-moon’ Kamo’oalewa is a fragment shot from the moon’s large crater
Earth’s ‘quasi-moon’ probably rocketed away from the actual moon relatively recently in the solar system’s history, a new study suggests. Kamo’oalewa, a 131- to 328-foot-wide (40 to 100 meters) Near Earth Object (NEO), was liberated between 1 million and 10 million years ago by an asteroid impact, an impact that destroyed the 13.7-mile-wide ( 22 … Read more