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UArizona Researchers Probe How a Piece of the Moon Became a Near-Earth Asteroid
October 24, 2023
TUCSON, Arizona, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release:

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An interesting pathway could have led the moon fragment to reach Earth's orbital space.

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In 2021, a team of University of Arizona astronomers suggested that a recently discovered near-Earth asteroid, Kamo`oalewa, could be a chunk of the moon. Two years after the striking discovery, another UArizona research group has found that a ra . . .

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