An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely referred to as a "mini-moon." Turns out the ... announcing the findings. “It looks like it hasn’t been in space ...

This does not leave much of a time span and ... which also appears to be a fragment of the Moon with an Earth-like orbit. However, until now, no objects had been definitively confirmed as lunar ...

Despite predictions that the asteroid might become a temporary mini-moon whirling around Earth ... lunar rock samples,” Kareta said. “It looks like it hasn’t been in space for very long ...