{"id":3926269,"date":"2026-06-02T15:01:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/kamooalewa-asteroids-lunar-origin-challenged-ahead-of-tianwen-2-arrival\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T15:01:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T20:01:42","slug":"kamooalewa-asteroids-lunar-origin-challenged-ahead-of-tianwen-2-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/kamooalewa-asteroids-lunar-origin-challenged-ahead-of-tianwen-2-arrival\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamo&#8217;oalewa asteroid&#8217;s lunar origin challenged ahead of Tianwen-2 arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>China&#8217;s Tianwen-2 sample-return mission is well on its way to its target, an asteroid called Kamo&#8217;oalewa. The spacecraft left Earth in May 2025 and should return in late 2027 with samples of a space rock that scientists had assumed originated from the moon. However, a new study published in Nature Communications suggests that we may be mistaken about the asteroid&#8217;s origin.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-06-kamooalewa-asteroid-lunar-tianwen.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s Tianwen-2 sample-return mission is well on its way to its target, an asteroid called Kamo&#8217;oalewa. The spacecraft left Earth in May 2025 and should return in late 2027 with samples of a space rock that scientists had assumed originated from the moon. However, a new study published in Nature Communications suggests that we may [&#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-3926269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}