Stig Östlund

tisdag, november 21, 2017

INTERSTELLAR ASTEROID "LIKE NOTHING EVER SEEN"

This artist’s impression shows the first interstellar asteroid: `Oumuamua. This unique
object was discovered o
n 19 October 2017 by the PAN STARRS 1 telescope
in Hawai`i. Subsequent o
bservations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile
and other observatories around the world show that it was travelling through
 space for millions of years before its chance encounter with our star
 system. `Oumuamua seems to be a dark red highly-elongated
 metallic or rocky object, about 400 metres long,
and is unlike anything normally
 found in the Solar System.
  

More --> www.spaceweather.com 

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