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Mike Wall

Sampling a 'quasi-moon': What's next for China's newly launched Tianwen 2 asteroid-sampling mission

An artist's illustration of the Earth "quasi-moon" Kamo'oalewa. Astronomers using the Large Binocular Telescope have shown that it might be a lost fragment of the moon.

China's latest deep-space mission is underway.

The Tianwen 2 asteroid-comet probe lifted off on Tuesday (May 28), riding into the final frontier atop a Long March 3B rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern China.

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