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Any news on Oumuamua, the interstellar object?

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Any news on Oumuamua, the interstellar object?

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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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Last thing I heard it left the solar system to never be seen again.
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  Do you know if it’s true that it has returned again?
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    That one was going too fast, it was going faster than the escape volicity of the solar system, that’s how they knew it was an interstellar object.
    
    It’s possible that they observed a second one.

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