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: Oumuamua
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…
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/…