A team of astronomers: Piotr A. Dybczyński (UAM), Małgorzata Królikowska (CBK PAN) and Rita Wysoczańska (UAM) have published recently a preprint (https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.10952) in which they propose a double star Kruger 60 as a possible home system for an interstellar comet I/Borisov discovered on August 30. The most important result supporting this hypothesis is a very small relative velocity of these two objects during their approach to each other one million years ago. The miss-distance is a bit too large, 1.7 pc, but it may be lowered when more precise data are available, especially the precise radial velocities of the components of the Kruger 60 system.
8.10.2019, PAD, HPZ