Kamo’aolewa♦️

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🔺A quasi-satellite named Kamo`aolewa, tracking the Earth’s orbit around the Sun, could be a fragment from the moon

🔺Spotted in 2006 by the panstarrs telescope in Hawaii.

🔺It is a near-Earth object (NEO) that orbits the Sun and gets as close as about 9 million miles from Earth.

🔺 Because of its small size (about 50 metres wide), this quasi-satellite has been difficult for scientists to study.