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Scientists Say Something Seems to Have Broken Off the Moon at This Crater

Futurism

APR 22, 12:21 PM EDT by VICTOR TANGERMANN

A team of astronomers believes the near-Earth asteroid Kamo’oalewa, a space rock between 130 and 328 feet in diameter, was once part of the Moon.

More specifically, a research team led by Tsinghua University astronomer Yifei Jiao suggests the rock was gouged from a geological feature on the far side of the Moon called the Giordano Bruno crater, named after a 16th-century Italian cosmological theorist.

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