There is indirect and rather

Home Forums Comets C/2017 U1 (PANSTARRS). An interstellar comet? There is indirect and rather

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Nick James
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There is indirect and rather weak evidence that some other objects may have interstellar origins but A/2017 U1 (now demoted from cometary status) has direct evidence from its strongly hyperbolic orbit. We’ve never seen anything with this kind of orbit before.