Kamo'oalewa

QUASI-MOON · Earth's steadiest shadow

SIZE about 50 mODDITY may be a chip of our Moon

A house sized rock that loops around Earth in a graceful corkscrew dance while actually orbiting the Sun, our most stable quasi moon. Its reflected light looks remarkably like lunar rock: Kamo'oalewa may literally be a splinter knocked off the Moon by an ancient impact. China's Tianwen-2 probe is on its way to bring back a piece.

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