[BAA Comets] The origin of interstellar asteroidal objects like 1I/2017 U1

Nick James ndj at nickdjames.com
Mon Nov 13 22:37:46 GMT 2017


Jeremy,

Thanks. Definitely worth a read and showing yet another benefit of the 
Gaia catalogue in that we can now calculate with high accuracy the 
motion of stars in our neighbourhood.

I'm not sure about the use of Klingon in a scientific paper though. Will 
MNRAS allow that?

Nick.


On 13/11/2017 13:43, Jeremy Shears wrote:
> There has been a few papers on arXiv recently concerning this fascinating object.
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> An MNRAS submission today (https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.03558) is interesting in that it discusses the possible origin of  1I/’Oumuamua . "We just met 1I/2017 U1 by chance, and with the derived mean Galactic density we expect such visitors to be very common".
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> Jeremy
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