An interstellar object is an astronomical object (such as an asteroid, a comet, or a rogue planet, but not a star or stellar remnant) in interstellar space...
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ʻOumuamua (category Interstellar objects)
ʻOumuamua is the first interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System. Formally designated 1I/2017 U1, it was discovered by Robert Weryk...
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telescopes to systematically look for artifacts in Earth's orbit, interstellar objects, and unexplained craft, sometimes called "anomalous aerial vehicles"...
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Rogue planet (redirect from Interstellar planetary mass object)
free-floating planet (FFP) or an isolated planetary-mass object (iPMO), is an interstellar object of planetary mass which is not gravitationally bound to...
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2I/Borisov (category Interstellar objects)
(Borisov), is the first observed rogue comet and the second observed interstellar interloper after ʻOumuamua. It was discovered by the Crimean amateur...
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Galaxy Interstellar object, an object that has traveled through interstellar space, such as ʻOumuamua, the first known example List of artificial objects leaving...
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Avi Loeb (section Interstellar Meteor IM1)
Interstellar Object 'Oumuamua". The New Yorker. Retrieved January 16, 2019. Siraj, Amir; Loeb, Abraham (November 27, 2018). "Identifying Interstellar...
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CNEOS 2014-01-08 (redirect from Interstellar meteor 1)
the northeast coast of Papua New Guinea. It was claimed to be an interstellar object in a 2019 preprint by astronomers Amir Siraj and Abraham Loeb, and...
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Interstellar travel is the hypothetical travel of spacecraft between star systems. Due to the vast distances between the Solar System and nearby stars...
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University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where he discovered the first known interstellar object, ʻOumuamua. He has also published numerous articles on meteors and...
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Observation arc (section Interstellar objects)
out a Mars impact by Oort cloud comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring). Interstellar objects generally require an observation arc of 2–3 weeks using hundreds...
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first known interstellar object to pass through the Solar System. Loeb, an astronomer at Harvard University, speculates that the object might be an extraterrestrial...
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Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars (also known as Interstellar) is a popular science book written by American...
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Comet Borisov may refer to any comets below discovered by Russian astronomer, Gennadiy Borisov: C/2014 Q3 (Borisov) C/2013 N4 (Borisov) C/2014 R1 (Borisov)...
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Project Lyra (category Interstellar travel)
of a mission to interstellar objects such as ʻOumuamua and 2I/Borisov, initiated on 30 October 2017 by the Initiative for Interstellar Studies (i4is)....
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Rendezvous with Rama (category Fiction about trans-Neptunian objects)
Spaceguard system to track potentially hazardous objects in space. In 2131, Spaceguard detects an interstellar object entering the Solar System, designating it...
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Extinction (astronomy) (redirect from Interstellar extinction)
radiation by dust and gas between an emitting astronomical object and the observer. Interstellar extinction was first documented as such in 1930 by Robert...
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An interstellar probe is a space probe that has left—or is expected to leave—the Solar System and enter interstellar space, which is typically defined...
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Route 525 1I/2017 U1 (ʻOumuamua), abbreviated 1I, the first observed interstellar object passing through the Solar System. One eye CACNA1I I1 (disambiguation)...
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Voyager Golden Record (redirect from Voyager Interstellar Record)
is currently the farthest human-made object from Earth. Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have reached interstellar space, the region between stars where...
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ISM on August 25, 2012, making it the first artificial object from Earth to do so. Interstellar plasma and dust will be studied until the estimated mission...
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A clear example of this is the eccentricities of the two known Interstellar objects as of October 2019, 1I/'Oumuamua. and 2I/Borisov. 'Oumuamua had an...
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challenges of Interstellar Travel. It pioneered small-scale laser sail interstellar probes (Project Dragonfly) and missions to interstellar objects (Project...
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The Local Interstellar Cloud (LIC), also known as the Local Fluff, is an interstellar cloud roughly 30 light-years (9.2 pc) across, through which the...
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Cosmic dust (redirect from Interstellar dust)
in the clouds of the diffuse interstellar medium, in molecular clouds, in the circumstellar dust of young stellar objects, and in planetary systems such...
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Interstellar communication is the transmission of signals between planetary systems. Sending interstellar messages is potentially much easier than interstellar...
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Solar System (section Extreme trans-Neptunian objects)
Milky Way. Large objects outside the heliopause remain gravitationally bound to the Sun, but the flow of matter in the interstellar medium homogenizes...
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Voyager program (redirect from Voyager Interstellar Mission)
The Voyager program is an American scientific program that employs two interstellar probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. They were launched in 1977 to take advantage...
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PhD at Princeton University. His research is primarily focused on interstellar objects, asteroids and comets, planetary system formation and evolution,...
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Starship (redirect from Interstellar spacecraft)
A starship, starcraft, or interstellar spacecraft is a theoretical spacecraft designed for traveling between planetary systems. The term is mostly found...
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