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Cigar-Shaped Asteroid Is Accelerating Away from the Sun
- wahern 8y agoIt's not an asteroid, but the first in a new class of comets created for interstellar objects. A new prefix, I/, was added to the comet naming scheme. This object is officially I/2017 U1 or more specifically 1I/2017 U1 ('Oumuamua).