NASA revealed five asteroids are expected to make a comparatively close approach to Earth, a Brazilian observatory has release a report identifying 19 nearby space rocks that appear to have come here from another star system entirely.
Scientists at Sao Paulo State University’s Institute of Geosciences and Exact Sciences have identified the interstellar visitors pursuing a bizarre retrograde orbit between Jupiter and Neptune.The bodies have been classified as centaurs – asteroids that have unstable orbits because they cross or have crossed the orbits of one or more of the giant planets in the outer Solar System.They were identified as interstellar immigrants thanks to their unusual path around our solar system, says Maria Helena Moreira.
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