Interstellar Interlopers, Coming in from the great beyond |
Interstellar Interlopers, Coming in from the great beyond |
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They finally found a chunk of something coming into the Solar System. Something much bigger than cosmic rays or dust particles.
Asteroid/comet in hyperbolic trajectory |
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Possibly a collision fragment. But figures of equilibrium of gravitationally bound polytropes allow for elongated Jacobi ellipsoids, too.
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