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[30] [31] [32] On 22 March 2023, astronomers proposed the observed acceleration was "due to the release of entrapped molecular hydrogen that formed through energetic processing of an H 2 O-rich icy body", [33] consistent with 'Oumuamua being an interstellar comet, "originating as a planetesimal relic broadly similar to solar system comets".
A clear example of this is the eccentricities of the two known Interstellar objects as of October 2019, 1I/'Oumuamua. and 2I/Borisov. 'Oumuamua had an incoming V inf of 26.5 kilometres per second (59,000 mph), but due to its low perihelion distance of only 0.255 au, it had an eccentricity of 1.200.
Until the discovery of 'Oumuamua, the fact that no comet with a speed greater than the Sun's escape velocity [30] had been observed was used to place upper limits to their density in interstellar space. A paper by Torbett indicated that the density was no more than 10 13 (10 trillion) comets per cubic parsec. [31]
ʻOumuamua was at first thought to be traveling too fast for any existing spacecraft to reach. [9] [10] The Initiative for Interstellar Studies (i4is) launched Project Lyra to assess the feasibility of a mission to ʻOumuamua. [4] Several options for sending a spacecraft to ʻOumuamua within a time-frame of 5 to 25 years were suggested. [11] [12]
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