What happens when young stars brush past each other? A lot, according to a new study suggesting our solar system contains comets stolen from another star 4.5 billion years ago. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/stolen-comets-and-free-floating-objects…
Tag: Interstellar object
Did an interstellar traveler hit Earth in 2014?
‘Oumuamua – 1st known object to sweep past us from beyond our solar system – caused a stir when astronomers spotted it in 2017. Now a new study suggests another interstellar object might have hit the Earth in 2014. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/interstellar-object-similar-to-oumuamua-strike-earth-2014…
An interstellar rock may have hit Earth in 2014 but nobody noticed
In 2017 astronomers spotted the first interstellar object in our solar system, ‘Oumuamua, but our planet may have been hit by a meteor from another star in 2014 Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2200302-an-interstellar-rock-may-have-hit-earth-in-2014-but-nobody-noticed/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Second Interstellar Meteor Discovered and This One Hit the Earth
Move over, ‘Oumuamua … there’s a new interstellar object in town. Well, there was, according to Abraham (Avi) Loeb, the astronomer who will be forever linked to ‘Oumuamua because of his theory that the cigar-shaped, not-of-this-solar-system object might actually be artificially made – in other words, an interstellar spaceship or solar sail. Despite some ridicule,… Read more » Source: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/04/second-interstellar-meteor-discovered-and-this-one-hit-the-earth/…