Researchers may have found an interstellar comet in our solar system

Whatever it is, it doesn’t look like it’s from around here.

Researchers think they’ve just spotted the first known comet or asteroid that may have come from outside our solar system.

Astronomer Rob Weryk first spotted the object, called A/2017 U1 on October 19 while using the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii, according to NASA.

After Weryk submitted his finding, he also found other, previous observations of the object that hadn’t been picked out of the data from the day before.

“Its motion could not be explained using either a normal solar system asteroid or comet orbit,” Weryk said in a statement.  Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Researchers may have found an interstellar comet in our solar system