Earth’s ‘second moon’ pictured for the first time

An artist’s impression of 469219 Kamo’oalewa (Picture: Sharkey et al./Nature Communications/University of Arizona)Earth’s second moon is ready for its close-up.
China has shared the first-ever photograph of 469219 Kamo’oalewa, Hawaiian for ‘wobbling celestial object’.Known to scientists as 2016HO3, the unusual near-Earth asteroid loops around the blue marble but is actually gravitationally bound to the sun.
Experts suspect this space rock is a piece of the lu