The moon is covered with craters from asteroids or meteorites, but the lunar material that gets kicked up by the impact usually just falls back onto the moon’s surface.
Next year, China will visit Kamo’oalewa for its first asteroid sampling mission, Tianwen-2. So, scientists will know more about the asteroid soon enough. It will be the first-ever mission to study an asteroid that is tens of meters in size.
The Giordano Bruno crater is on the far side of the moon, which we can’t see. The near side is what’s visible to us. As the moon orbits the Earth, the sun lights up half of it, and that’s when we see the different phases of the moon.
Kamo’oalewa is expected to orbit the Earth’s surrounding area for millions of years.
