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It's historic in the sense that it's one of the first interstellar objects we've seen. But these things are almost certainly not rare; they only seem so because
by dreamcompiler 7y ago
It's historic in the sense that it's one of the first interstellar objects we've seen. But these things are almost certainly not rare; they only seem so because we've only recently become able to detect them. In 10 years sightings of interstellar objects won't even make the second-tier news feeds.
- sixothree 7y agoWhen my mother was born plate tectonics was a hypothesis. When I was born proof of extra-solar planets did not exist. I know this these objects have been hurling past us for billions of years, but the fact that we spotted one is exciting for me.