A brief visit from a red and extremely elongated interstellar asteroid
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DOI: 10.1038/nature25020
Abstract: None of the approximately 750,000 known asteroids and comets in the Solar System is thought to have originated outside it, despite models of the formation of planetary systems suggesting that orbital migration of giant planets… read more here.
Keywords: brief visit; system; solar system; visit red ... See more keywords
Retrograde orbits excess among observable interstellar objects
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DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa1378
Abstract: In this work we investigate the orbital distribution of interstellar objects (ISOs), observable by the future wide-field National Science Foundation Vera C. Rubin Observatory (VRO). We generate synthetic population of ISOs and simulate their ephemerides… read more here.
Keywords: perihelion distances; retrograde orbits; interstellar objects; orbits excess ... See more keywords