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Kamo'oalewa asteroid's lunar origin challenged ahead of Tianwen-2 arrival
- June 2, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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China's Tianwen-2 sample-return mission is well on its way to its target, an asteroid called Kamo'oalewa. The spacecraft left Earth in May 2025 and should return in late 2027 with samples of a space rock that scientists had assumed originated from the moon. However, a new study published in Nature Communications suggests that we may be mistaken about the asteroid's origin.
Originally published at Phys.org