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Michele T. Bannister

1 articles · 3 co-authors · latest: 2026-07-05

Quasi-interstellar objects: when the Solar System meets its own exiles

The discovery of 1I/‘Oumuamua made us wonder: could some interstellar wanderers actually be our own comets, ejected from the Oort cloud and returning millions of years later? Simulations show that such ‘quasi-interstellar objects’ are indeed possible, but they have unique characteristics: extremely
arXiv:2607.04216v1 · 2026-07-05