The Tale of the Interstellar Visitor
Tumble Science Podcast for Kids
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Amua Mua, Is That a New Object?
In late two thousand 17 a telescope meant for finding comets and asteroids near earth spotted an unusual object. It passed close to the sun and was behaving like nothing any one had ever seen before. Soon after, jane heard from her old astronomy friend, dave jewett, who discovered the piper belt with her. He says, oh, a new object, tis varnes. That's a pretty good bad name. But what does it mean? Well, it comes from the word hyperbola. And for space objects, it means that the object is moving too fast to get trapped by the sun's gravitational pull. So i frequently feel like i am spitning out of
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