‘Oumuamua might be a shard of a broken planet
Simulations led to this new origin story for the first known visitor to our solar system
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‘Oumuamua (illustrated), an enigmatic celestial body that passed through the solar system in 2017, might have been a piece of a shredded planet, a new study suggests.
Joy Pollard/Gemini Observatory, AURA, NSF