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Asteroid 2016 HO₃: China's Tianwen-2 Reaches Earth's Micro Moon 'Kamoʻoalewa'; Sends 4K Pics

Earth Has a ‘Quasi-Moon’ Lurking Nearby, and These Are the First Images of the Space Object That Prove It

The Chinese Tianwen-2 mission has captured the first imagery of a space object that some astronomers are calling Earth’s “quasi-moon.”

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