{"id":770194,"date":"2023-10-23T12:21:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T16:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=770194"},"modified":"2023-10-23T12:21:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T16:21:49","slug":"how-could-a-piece-of-the-moon-become-a-near-earth-asteroid-researchers-have-an-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=770194","title":{"rendered":"How could a piece of the moon become a near-Earth asteroid? Researchers have an answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of astronomers has found a new clue that a recently discovered near-Earth asteroid, Kamo&#8217;oalewa, might be a chunk of the moon. They hypothesized that the asteroid was ejected from the lunar surface during a meteorite strike\u2014and they found that a rare pathway could have allowed Kamo&#8217;oalewa to get into orbit around the sun while remaining close to the orbits of the Earth and the moon.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-10-piece-moon-near-earth-asteroid.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How could a piece of the moon become a near-Earth asteroid? Researchers have an answer<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of astronomers has found a new clue that a recently discovered near-Earth asteroid, Kamo&#8217;oalewa, might be a chunk of the moon. They hypothesized that the asteroid was ejected&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=770194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}