Asteroid Kamo'oalewa, the target of China's upcoming Tianwen-2 mission, likely was blasted from the Giordano Bruno crater on the far side of the moon, as seen here by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University
Posted on 04/30/2024 6:44:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
...Unlike most near-Earth asteroids, which are thought to hail from the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, asteroid 2016 HO3, also known as Kamo'oalewa, was likely blasted from the Giordano Bruno crater on the moon's far side and has been hurtling through space for several million years...
Measuring between 150 and 190 feet in diameter, the asteroid is about half the size of the "London Eye" Ferris wheel...
Previous research pointing to Kamo'oalewa likely originating from the moon included its reflectance spectrum, which is more compatible with lunar materials rather than the general population of near-Earth asteroids, and its low orbital velocity relative to Earth, suggesting it originated close to the Earth-moon system. However, scientists had not succeeded in pinpointing its likely point of origin until now...
According to the simulations, it would have required an impactor of at least 1 kilometer (0.6 mile) in diameter to launch a large fragment like Kamo'oalewa beyond the moon's gravitational pull. According to the group's model, the impact would have dug up Kamo'oalewa from deep beneath the moon's surface, leaving behind an impact crater larger than 10 to 20 kilometers (6-12 miles) in diameter. Additionally, the crater would have to be younger than the average lifetime for near-Earth objects, which spans about 10 million to 100 million years, a very short and recent period in the history of the solar system.
While the lunar surface is riddled with thousands of craters from impacts spanning the moon's 4.5 billion year-history, only Giordano Bruno with its 14-mile diameter and estimated 4 million years of age fits the bill in terms of size and age, making it the most probable source of Kamo'oalewa's origin.
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Asteroid Kamo'oalewa, the target of China's upcoming Tianwen-2 mission, likely was blasted from the Giordano Bruno crater on the far side of the moon, as seen here by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University
Tell me how the hell they know that? Considering everything they ever told us about the galaxy ,is turning out to be wrong .
China will land there and declare themselves first men on this moon. And the MSM will declare it the greatest event in human history.
The SCIENCE has spoken!
...but please, pay no attention to that person behind the curtain.
Oh. Did the crater expose the metallic shell of the hollow spacecraft called The Moon?
Et tu Bruno?
Although its nearly impossible to get a hi-res non jpeg of the crater, there are a number of interesting structures to the right and left of the dark diamond shaped feature. Best I could find was 6000X1492pixels. Not nearly enough, but just enough to be tantalizing.
Dark diamond shaped features are forever. :^)
Giordano Bruno crater (4K UHD)
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The Giordano Bruno crater on the Moon’s far side seen by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. Giordano Bruno is a 22-kilometer (14-mile) impact crater, considered the youngest crater of its size or larger on the Moon.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University
Music: Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven courtesy of YouTube Audio Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTQL5VQxAiw
” is about half the size of the “London Eye” Ferris wheel”
Is that supposed to be meaningful?
Is your post? I can see why all your babysitters quit.
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