One of the international efforts to find asteroids that could hit Earth was the 2016 discovery of the asteroid Kamoa’aleva. (Kamo’oalewa) is estimated to be 40 to 100 meters in diameter. And it spins very fast to know the asteroid status. Then, in 2021, another team of scientists found evidence that Kamoe Leva’s composition is similar to rocks found on Earth’s moon.

Recently, a small team of international planetary scientists A report in the journal Nature Astronomy revealed evidence supporting the theory that the asteroid Kamoa’aleva was ejected from the moon. The latter led a vast study of asteroids and their possible locations on the Moon. Where the asteroid Kamoa’Aleva may have come from The team created a computer model to simulate the accident. This could result in a chunk of the moon’s surface the size of the asteroid Kamoa Aleva being ejected into space. Until the team managed to estimate the possible size of another asteroid that would hit the Moon. After that, the size of the craters left will occur.

The scientists also noted that The accident must have happened recently. The team also compared samples of lunar material brought back to Earth. Spectral similarities were found between samples from the Giordano Bruno crater and the asteroid Camooaleva, both of which also contain the mineral pyroxene.

(Credit: Nature Astronomy (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-024-02258-z)