Fig. 7: Evolution of the ecliptic inclination of Kamo’oalewa and of a lunar ejecta particle. | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 7: Evolution of the ecliptic inclination of Kamo’oalewa and of a lunar ejecta particle.

From: Lunar ejecta origin of near-Earth asteroid Kamo’oalewa is compatible with rare orbital pathways

Fig. 7: Evolution of the ecliptic inclination of Kamo’oalewa and of a lunar ejecta particle.

For Kamo'oalewa, HS states appear in violet and QS states in green. For the ejecta (KL2, vL = 4.4 km s−1), non-co-orbital motion is shown in black, HS states appear in blue and QS states in yellow. The orbital evolution was obtained with numerical propagation under the same model, starting at initial epoch J2452996.

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