From the post:
>A Chinese spacecraft on a mission to collect and return samples of a near-Earth asteroid beamed back its first image of its target. Called Kamo‘oalewa, the space rock loops by Earth, coming as close as 9 million miles and as far as 25 million miles from our planet. It’s a quasi-satellite, meaning it orbits the sun, but it sticks close to Earth—astronomers have discovered eight of these space rocks. Some space scientists affectionately refer to these objects as Earth’s “mini moons,” or “quasi moons,” although research suggests Kamo‘oalewa may in fact be a stray piece of our moon, thrown into space by an ancient impact. Other evidence, including James Webb Space Telescope observations, dispute that theory, however.
I hate that every time I read anything about this, I can hear Dr. Evil's voice in my mind saying "it's a mini moon, a quasi moon, a diet moon".
