1I/'Oumuamua

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1I/'Oumuamua is the first known interstellar object ever discovered. It is about 100 x 1000 m in length and 230 x 35 x 35 m wide, resembling a flat pancake. It made its closest approach to the Sun just 40 days before it was discovered by the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii

The trajectory of 1I/'Oumuamua as it passes through the inner Solar System. Its position upon discovery on October 2017 is marked in green

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