{"id":187899,"date":"2024-04-22T14:37:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T19:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/scientists-say-something-seems-to-have-broken-off-the-moon-at-this-crater"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:37:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T19:37:26","slug":"scientists-say-something-seems-to-have-broken-off-the-moon-at-this-crater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/scientists-say-something-seems-to-have-broken-off-the-moon-at-this-crater","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Say Something Seems to Have Broken Off the Moon at This Crater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-say-something-seems-to-have-broken-off-the-moon-at-this-crater2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of astronomers believes the near-Earth asteroid Kamo\u2019oalewa, a space rock between 130 and 328 feet in diameter, was once part of the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, a research team led by Tsinghua University astronomer Yifei Jiao suggests the rock was gouged from a geological feature on the far side of the Moon called the Giordano Bruno crater, named after a 16th-century Italian cosmological theorist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have explored the processes for impact-induced lunar fragments migrating into Earth co-orbital space and presented support for Kamo\u2019oalewa\u2019s possible origin from the formation of the Giordano Bruno crater a few million years ago,\u201d the researchers write in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41550-024-02258-z\" class=\"\">paper<\/a> published in the journal <em>Nature Astronomy<\/em> last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of astronomers believes the near-Earth asteroid Kamo\u2019oalewa, a space rock between 130 and 328 feet in diameter, was once part of the Moon. More specifically, a research team led by Tsinghua University astronomer Yifei Jiao suggests the rock was gouged from a geological feature on the far side of the Moon called the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}