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https://gizmodo.com/interstellar-asteroids-like-oumuamua-could-rewrite-the-1822837006
The cigar-shaped ‘Oumuamua (pronounced “oh-moo-ah-moo-ah” and meaning “a messenger from afar arriving first”) may have caught astronomers off guard when it zipped through our Solar System last November, but they’ve been studying it at a fevered pitch ever since. Scientists are trying to understand where it came from and what it’s made of and see if it can tell us anything about how planets form and what distant star systems might look like. Some scientists even speculated that ‘Oumuamua might be a spaceship or some kind of probe, but that doesn’t appear to be the case.
The cigar-shaped ‘Oumuamua (pronounced “oh-moo-ah-moo-ah” and meaning “a messenger from afar arriving first”) may have caught astronomers off guard when it zipped through our Solar System last November, but they’ve been studying it at a fevered pitch ever since. Scientists are trying to understand where it came from and what it’s made of and see if it can tell us anything about how planets form and what distant star systems might look like. Some scientists even speculated that ‘Oumuamua might be a spaceship or some kind of probe, but that doesn’t appear to be the case.
