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Sunday, January 7, 2018
Where did 'Oumuamua actually come from?
One of the highlights of 2017 was the discovery of the first object in
our solar system that definitely came from somewhere else. At first we
thought it was a comet, then an asteroid, and now the International Astronomical Union has reclassified it as something new entirely: an interstellar object.
The Hawaiian astronomers who discovered it aptly named it ‘Oumuamua,
which means “a messenger from afar arriving first”, reflecting that this
object is like a scout sent from the past to reach out to us.
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