Gizmodo.com June 30, 2026 • 13:45

China Prepares Its First Asteroid Landing on Earth’s Quasi-Moon - Gizmodo

By Passant Rabie

The Tianwen-2 probe will attempt to collect samples from Kamo’oalewa and bring them back to Earth.

A Chinese probe is set for a historic touchdown on asteroid Kamooalewa, which may have been blasted away from Earth’s Moon millions of years ago after a violent impact.
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