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China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft arrives at one of Earth’s mysterious ‘quasi-moons’
China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft is approaching the near-Earth asteroid Kamo‘oalewa, aiming to return asteroid samples to Earth by 2027 as part of its mission.
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