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I was informed that its shape and rotation make it very unusual, in addition to being the first known interstellar object.
by nwah1 9y ago
I was informed that its shape and rotation make it very unusual, in addition to being the first known interstellar object.
- andygates 9y agoIn our solar system, most small stuff has been rounded by billions of years of collisions. This may be a primeval shard from a high-energy collision in another solar system - unaffected because it was flung out of that system at high speed. Cosmic pointy shrapnel. :) (Big stuff self-rounds per gravity, of course, but this ain't that big)