A small close to Earth asteroid, which has the Hawaiian name… tongue twister «Kamo’oalewaAnd is a small semi-satellite of our planet, may be an ancient fragment of it Moon, according to astronomers.
If that’s the case, it remains unknown how this rock was cut off from the moon.
One possible explanation is that it was launched into space after impact another body on the Moon. It is pointed out that so far no other asteroids of lunar origin have been found, as broadcast by APE BPE.
Kamo’oalewa (a name that refers to the creation myths of the people of Hawaii) belongs to the category of asteroids, which while in orbit around the Sun, remain relatively close to Earth.
It was discovered by the PanSTARRS telescope in Hawaii in 2016 and since then few things have become possible to know about it: It has an estimated diameter 50 to 65 meters and approaches the Earth at a distance of about 14.4 million kilometers. Due to its orbit, it can be observed from our planet for only a few weeks each April and only by a large telescope, as it is about four million times fainter than the faintest star that the human eye can see in the dark sky.
The astronomers, led by him Ben Sackley of the University of Arizona, who published the paper in the journal Nature Communications Earth & Environment, light reflected by Kamo’oalewa and concluded that it “testifies” to a chemical composition very similar with that of the rocks of the Moon, which had been brought to Earth by NASA’s “Apollo” missions.
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