{"id":3923780,"date":"2026-02-02T14:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/as-rubins-survey-gets-underway-simulations-suggest-it-could-find-about-six-lunar-origin-asteroids-per-year\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T14:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:05:07","slug":"as-rubins-survey-gets-underway-simulations-suggest-it-could-find-about-six-lunar-origin-asteroids-per-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/as-rubins-survey-gets-underway-simulations-suggest-it-could-find-about-six-lunar-origin-asteroids-per-year\/","title":{"rendered":"As Rubin&#8217;s survey gets underway, simulations suggest it could find about six lunar-origin asteroids per year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Most near-Earth asteroids are thought to drift in from the main asteroid belt. But a small subset may have a much closer origin: the moon. One intriguing example is 469219 Kamo\u02bboalewa (2016 HO3), an Earth quasi-satellite whose reported spectrum resembles lunar material and which is a target of China&#8217;s Tianwen-2 sample-return mission.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-rubin-survey-underway-simulations-lunar.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most near-Earth asteroids are thought to drift in from the main asteroid belt. But a small subset may have a much closer origin: the moon. One intriguing example is 469219 Kamo\u02bboalewa (2016 HO3), an Earth quasi-satellite whose reported spectrum resembles lunar material and which is a target of China&#8217;s Tianwen-2 sample-return mission. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}