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Oh that makes sense. Although this one was detected while still incoming towards perihelion (right?), but not by much. Spotting one of these a few years in adv
by exDM69 9y ago
Oh that makes sense. Although this one was detected while still incoming towards perihelion (right?), but not by much.
Spotting one of these a few years in advance is the dream of many astronomers.
- CydeWeys 9y agoNo, this one was detected well after perihelion, and even after its closest approach to the Earth too (so if it'd been on a collision course we wouldn't have detected it in time even). See here: http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/interstellar/interstellar_orbit_sm.jpg http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/interstellar/i...