BBC reports an interstellar asteroid with a weird shape is coming.
The cosmic interloper was discovered by Rob Weryk, a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Astronomy and a co-author of the new study, which is published in Nature journal. Weryk and fellow Institute for Astronomy researcher Marco Micheli realised it was going extremely fast (with enough speed to avoid being captured by the Sun's gravitational pull) and was on a very eccentric trajectory taking it out of our Solar System.
The asteroid's name, 'Oumuamua, means "a messenger from afar arriving first" in Hawaiian.
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