'Oumuamua is the first confirmed interstellar object observed passing through the solar system, an elongated body roughly 100 to 1,000 meters long discovered in October 2017; on a hyperbolic trajectory not bound to the Sun, it is passing through rather than orbiting.
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Sun, Celestial Objects Passed through the inner solar system on a hyperbolic, unbound trajectory; not gravitationally captured into orbit.
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'Oumuamua is the first confirmed interstellar object observed passing through the solar system, an elongated body roughly 100 to 1,000 meters long discovered in October 2017; on a hyperbolic trajectory not bound to the Sun, it is passing through rather than orbiting.
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Extrapolated and without further deceleration, its path cannot be captured into a solar orbit, so it will eventually leave the Solar System and continue into interstellar space.
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1I/ʻOumuamua is the first confirmed interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System.
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