astronomer at an observatory on the Crimean
Peninsula. In 2017, a telescope in Hawaii spied
our first known interstellar visitor.
With another so soon, these interstellar passers-
by could be more common than thought.
“We are now working on getting more
observations of this unusual object,” Marco
Micheli of ESA’s Near-Earth Object Coordination
Center said in a statement. “We need to wait
a few days to really pin down its origin with
observations that will either prove the current
thesis that it is interstellar, or perhaps drastically
change our understanding.”