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SCI016: That’s no moon! Caroline tells Lindsay and Lino that astronomers have discovered a quasi-moon companion of Earth that may in fact be a piece of the Moon that broke off from it eons ago. Plus NASA’s mission to defend our planet from killer space rocks.

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• Lunar-like silicate material forms the Earth quasi-satellite (469219) 2016 HO3 Kamoʻoalewa | Communications Earth & Environment
• A ‘quasi-moon’ asteroid companion of Earth that may actually be a moon relic | Space
• A space rock called Kamoʻoalewa may be a piece of the moon | Science News

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