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University of Arizona: Near-Earth Asteroid Might Be a Lost Fragment of the Moon
November 12, 2021
TUCSON, Arizona, Nov. 12 (TNSJou) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release on Nov. 11, 2021:

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A team of UArizona-led researchers think that the near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa might actually be a miniature moon.

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A near-Earth asteroid named Kamo'oalewa could be a fragment of our moon, according to a paper published today in Nature Communications Earth and Environment by a team of astronomers led by the . . .

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