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Kamo’oalewa
November 17 , 2021
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- The asteroid Kamo’oalewa is a quasi-satellite of the Earth.
- It is Earth's wobbly companion that was spotted in 2006 by the PanSTARRS telescope in Hawaii.
- It is a near-Earth object (NEO) that orbits the Sun and gets as close as about 9 million miles from Earth.
- It was named Kamo’oalewa, a word that is part of a Hawaiian chant and alludes to an offspring that travels on its own.
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