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NASA telescope’s ‘non-detection’ of first interstellar object in solar system leads NAU team to conclusions about mystery object’s size, reflectivity

Posted by Heather Tate on November 14, 2018

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Nov. 14, 2018

In November 2017, a team of scientists pointed NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope toward a comet-like object known as ’Oumuamua—the first interstellar body ever found in our solar system—but the object proved too faint for the infrared telescope to detect.

Though initially disappointing, this non-detection of ’Oumuamua eventually provided new information about the cosmic interloper, according to a new… Read more

Filed Under: Astronomy and Planetary Science Tagged With: asteroids, Astronomy, Comet, David Trilling, NASA, Oumuamua, Spitzer Space Telescope

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