First photo of Earth ‘quasi’ moon transmitted by Chinese probe

China’s Tianwen-2 probe snapped the picture of the Earth quasi-sattelite Kamo'oalewa, after completing a landmark 1 billion-km journey that began last year. Kamo'oalewa is believed to be a piece of our own Moon.

Asteroid Kamo'oalewa could have been blasted from our moon

469219 Kamo’oalewa as a near-Earth asteroid and a quasi-satellite to Earth. However, in 2021, astronomers using spectroscopy revealed that Kamo’oalewa might in fact be a piece of the moon.