Earth’s New ‘Second Moon’ Is As Big As The Statue Of Liberty—And Scientists Just Found Its Origin

Earth’s “second moon”—as asteroid called Kamo’oalewa—appears to have come from the moon itself. Scientists have concluded this using computer models, revealing its origin as the Giordano Bruno crater on the moon’s far side. Near-Earth Asteroids—of which the Kamo’oalewa is one—are generally thought to have come from the Main Asteroid Belt between Mars’s and Jupiter’s orbits.