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China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft arrives at one of Earth’s mysterious ‘quasi-moons’


The Tianwen-2 spacecraft is slowly closing in on the near-Earth asteroid Kamo‘oalewa, on a mission that would bring China’s first asteroid samples back to Earth in 2027

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