CIGAR-SHAPED ASTEROID CAME FROM ANOTHER SOLAR SYSTEM.

[Based on a news item published in The Hindu dated 22nd November, 2017 (Wednesday), p. 24].
A rocky cigar-shaped object detected in space in October 2017 came from another solar system, astronomers said on 21st November, 2017 (Monday) as they confirmed an unprecedented observation. The discovery may provide clues as to how other solar systems formed, said the researchers, who published their study in the British Journal 'Nature'. The asteroid, named Oumuamua by its discoverers, is 400 meters long and highly elongated, perhaps 10 times as long as it is wide. That odd shape is unprecedented among the some 7,50,000 asteroids and comets observed in our solar system where they formed, said the researchers. 
Once a year: They concluded that the cigar-shaped thing is from another solar system due to data on its orbit. Asteroids like Oumuamua enter our solar system about once a year. But they are hard to trace and had not been detected until now, thanks to stronger telescopes. The detection suggests this object  had been wandering through out galaxy, the Milky Way, unattached to any star system for hundreds of millions of years before it ran into ours. "For decades we have theorised that such inter-stellar objects are out there, and now - for the first time - we have direct evidence they exist", said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. "This history-making discovery is opening a new window to study formation of solar systems beyond ur own", he added. 
The asteroid was detected by a telescope in Hawaii. Oumuamua means messenger in Hawaiian.
-Challpalli Srinivas Chakravarthy RSS, 13-03-2019, Wednesday-
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