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Asteroid 2016 HO₃: China's Tianwen-2 Reaches Earth's Micro Moon 'Kamoʻoalewa'; Sends 4K Pics
Secretive Chinese probe snaps first photo of Earth's mysterious 'quasi-moon' — and it may pose a big problem
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Harry Baker
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Live ScienceSecretive Chinese probe snaps first photo of Earth's mysterious 'quasi-moon' — and it may pose a big problemlivescience.comChina's Tianwen-2 spacecraft has captured the first close-up photo of one of Earth's "quasi-moons," Kamo'oalewa. However, the image and the timing of its release suggest that it may be harder for the probe to collect samples from the space rock than originally planned.
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