China releases photo of an asteroid some consider Earth’s ‘quasi moon’

China’s Tianwen-2 space probe has beamed back the first photo of an asteroid that some astronomers think might have once been part of the moon. The mission aims to return a sample to Earth.

A Chinese space probe has beamed back the first photo of a near-Earth asteroid that some astronomers think might have once been part of the moon.

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