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Earth's weird 'quasi-moon' Kamo'oalewa is a fragment blasted out of big moon crater


"Like detectives, we used all known information regarding this Kamo‘oalewa and the lunar surface to derive a scenario for the origin of this object, starting from the impact that produced the Giordano Bruno crater."

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