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New Research Points to Violent Origin of Enigmatic Earth ‘Quasi-Moon’

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For nearly a decade, a near-Earth asteroid named Kamo’oalewa has invoked speculation over how it came to orbit the Sun in total synchrony with Earth as though it shares some special relationship with our planet. A new study of the oddball may have pinpointed where it came from: a young impact crater on the far side of…

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Source: gizmodo.com