The “space rock,” which is 3.7 miles (six kilometers) wide, about the same size as Mount Kilimanjaro, was first spotted in 1986 with the help of a makeshift cardboard telescope.
An oversized comet that scientists believe may have come from another solar system is currently moving toward the sun.
The “space rock,” which is 3.7 miles (six kilometers) wide, about the same size as Mount Kilimanjaro, was first spotted in 1986 with the help of a makeshift cardboard telescope.
Almost 40 years later, it is going to make its closest approach to the sun in more than half a decade, today.
Experts believe it may have been sent into a strange orbit after being ejected from its home solar system by the gravity of a giant exoplanet.
Just because the comet has been classified as unusual because it has low levels of carbon and contains less than 1.5 percent of the expected levels of the chemical cyanogen, according to the analysis data, scientists have been led to conclude that it could come from another solar system. .
Scientists now hope to be able to unlock more of the space rock’s secrets as it makes its journey towards us, once again.
It is currently being monitored by the European Space Agency, which also tracked it when it made its closest approach to the sun in 1996, 2002, 2007, 2012 and 2017.
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