Studies of the first interstellar object

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One of our colleagues, prof. UAM Piotr A. Dybczyński, was invited to join an international team, which shall study 1I/’Oumuamua. This rocky body of hundreds of metres size is the first asteroid which came to us from the outside of our Solar System, passed the Sun and flew away towards other stars.

The science team directed by Mathew Knight and Alan Fitzsimmons received a financial support from the International Space Science Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland for the project First Contact: Making Sense of 1I/’Oumuamua and Its Implications

2018-06-13, AK, TK