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NASA: Strange Comet or Asteroid Could Be First Interstellar Object

NASA: Strange Comet or Asteroid Could Be First Interstellar Object
The path of an unknown object as it passed through our inner solar system in September and October 2017. NASA/JPL-Caltech
Holly Kellum
Holly Kellum
Washington Correspondent
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An object that isn’t acting like most other objects in space has been picked up by a telescope in Hawaii that takes images for NASA.

On Oct. 19, the object was spotted traveling under Earth’s orbit by Hawaii’s Pan-STARRS 1 telescope on the Haleakala volcano in Maui.

Holly Kellum
Holly Kellum
Washington Correspondent
Holly Kellum is a Washington correspondent for NTD. She has worked for NTD on and off since 2012.
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