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Scientists turned into cosmic crime scene investigators to reconstruct the impact that sent Earth's "quasi-moon" Kamo'oalewa rocketing from the lunar surface millions of years ago.
A team of astronomers believes near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, a space rock between 130 and 328 feet in diameter, once belonged to the Moon. More specifically, they suggest the rock was gouged from a specific crater on the far side of the Moon called the Giordano Bruno crater, named after a 16th-century Italian cosmological theorist. […]