Astronomers may have discovered a 3-aid intersteller visitor

It seems that our solar system is becoming more popular with out-off-towners.

Astronomers may have found a third intersteller object, something that is beyond our own solar system.

The first intersteller object was ‘OUMUAMUA’, Discovered in 2017The second was a comet called 2I Borisov,

This new item, which is temporarily named A11PL3Z by the International Astronomical Association Nominal planetary centerA survey was discovered using a telescope that serves as an asteroid effect an asteroid effect initial warning system. A11Pl3z is not considered a threat to Earth.

Paul Weigart, Professor of the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Western University, said, “Now we have more than a week of observation or, it shows that this orbit is very clearly intersteller.” ,It is traveling very fast to be bound to the Sun, and so it has probably come to us from outside our solar system. ,

It is unknown at this time what is the object, whether it is an asteroid or comet.

When it was revealed for the first time, ‘Oumamua was considered a rectangular asteroid, but follow -up comments confirmed that it confirmed There was a cometThe way 2i Borisov was later.

Astronomers believe that the reason for this A11pl3z Comes beyond our solar system, due to something called eccentricity.

Periodic comets, which revolve the sun repeatedly, have eccentricity between 0.2 and 0.7. People with more than one number are considered hyperbolic comets and arise from possibility High cloud Which surrounds our solar system and has billions of icy objects. It may also indicate that an object is beyond our solar system.

Objects with high eccentricities indicate that they come beyond the solar system. In this case, it is currently estimated that the A11PL3Z has a uniqueness of six. As astronomers collected more data over time, it is likely to change the number.

So what do we know?

“Right now, it is beyond the orbit of Mars, so it is far away,” said Wegart. “It is almost in the Jupiter’s orbit, but it is coming in. It will not be much closer than M.ARS ‘ Orbit … It will be at that nearest point in October, so now a few months from now, and then it will leave and start getting out of the solar system. ,

Good news for Earth.

As it is for size, it will be more known over time, but right now indicates that it is a large.

“This is probably about 10 kilometers crossing,” Weigart said, which would make it the largest of the three intersteller visitors seen so far.

So, are we sure that it is not an unknown Flying Object (UFO) or an unknown discrepant event (UAP), which is a word used by scientists to describe the things seen in the sky that remain unexplained?

“Well, of course, as we can be,” Wegart said. “It has not demonstrated any unusual behavior. It is just traveling through the solar system that we will expect for an intersteller object … no indication that it is unusual in that sense in any way.”

Bomer for UAP enthusiasts.

Whatever is, you can be sure that all major telescopes now have their place on A11Pl3z. It is also an exciting time as new Vera c. Observable observatory in Chile Just turned onJoe Wegart said that one to 10 to 10 of these items is expected to be discovered every year.

Why have we just started searching for these items?

“Probably, these things are passing more or less regularly than the solar system, and it is now that our telescope is getting better,” Weigart said. “We are really starting to catch these things that we are really deeper and darker in our surrounding space.”

For Weigert – whose research is very focused on asteroids and comets – the study of these objects will be close and personal studies will be a dream come true.

“It’s surprising to think that when you see in the night sky and you see all these stars, I mean, they are beautiful, they are amazing, but they are really far away,” they said. “At the same time … the bits and pieces of these star systems are traveling to us. And they come under our fist.”