The Hawaiian comet Oumuamua continues to mistrust

HONOLULU (KHON2) – It was a mystery that many were trying to solve last year, what this object was floating in our solar system.

Telescopes on Haleakala have seen it in October.

The researchers scrambled for three nights to understand what it was before disappearing.

Months later, they are still unraveling the mystery

They determined that it's a comet, not an asteroid as originally thought.

"I think it's a really exciting cause" Oumuamua represents a fragment that remains of a birth and growth process from another solar system. "said Karen Meech, a researcher at the University of Hawaii.

"It was delivered free of charge and pbaded close enough to the Earth for us to study, so we have a glimpse of the material from another star system and there is no such thing. Another way to look at something in that kind of detail. "

When scientists saw Oumuamua, it was moving at 85,000 miles per hour.

Experts say that one in ten visitors spends each year, but they move so fast that we have never been able to study one until now.

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Associated History: Meet & # 39; Oumuamua, the first interstellar visitor observed at our solar system