Scientists confirm that the solar system ushers in the first interstellar visito

New data show that this interstellar visitor is a rocky, long rod-shaped object that is dark red. It was named discoverer "Oumuamua", up to 400 meters in diameter, very slender, probably 10 times the width. The aspect ratio is far greater than any asteroid or comet scientists have observed in the solar system so far.

According to previous reports, Oumuamua came from the direction of Lyra and plunged into the solar system's ecliptic at an almost vertical angle of 25.5 kilometers per second on September 2 and passed the recent day on September 9. After crossing Mercury's orbit, it flies about 24 million kilometers below the Earth on the 14th of this month at a distance of about 60 times the Earth's moon's distance.

Scientists say this unusual object has been shuttling in the Milky Way, not part of any galaxy, and may have been in space for hundreds of millions of years before entering the solar system.