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Interstellar Visitor ‘Oumuamua Could Be the Shattered Remnant of a Pluto-like Object – Gizmodo Australia
Four years ago, astronomers detected ‘Oumuamua — the first interstellar object known to pass through our solar system. The object featured an array of strange and…
Four years ago, astronomers detected Oumuamua the first interstellar object known to pass through our solar system. The object featured an array of strange and inexplicable characteristics, some of which are consistent with an icy shard ripped from a Pluto-like object, according to new research.
We suggest Oumuamua was probably thrown out of a young star system about half a billion years ago, declare the authors of two new research papers published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets….
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