from outer space

Robert Weryk, using a Pan-STARRS telescope, discovered a strange object. It is travelling along a highly eccentric trajectory, like a comet. Classification: C/2017 U1 (PANSTARRS). When found, it was at 85 Lunar Distances (LD, the Earth-Moon distance) and moving away from the Sun.

No, its not an alien spaceship.

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The article at Virtual Telescope refers to the event. While there are only a few observations so far, the fascinating thing is that it appears this object is coming from outside our solar system!

It went through perihelion 40 days ago. The orbital characteristic is hyperbolic. It will never return.