A team of astronomers has found a new clue that a recently discovered near-Earth asteroid, Kamo’oalewa, might be a chunk of the moon. They hypothesized that the asteroid was ejected from the lunar surface during a meteorite strike—and they found that a rare pathway could have allowed Kamo’oalewa to get into orbit around the sun while remaining close to the orbits of the Earth and the moon.
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