The Giordano Bruno crater on the moon, where asteroid Kamo‘oalewa could have originated
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We may have located the exact birthplace of a strange asteroid that seems to have originated on the moon.
In 2021, astronomers noticed that asteroid 469219 Kamo‘oalewa, which orbits the sun on the same trajectory as Earth, looked unusual. The light bouncing off it appeared strangely red, marking it apart from the thousands of other near-Earth asteroids we know about.
