Timeline for Is "intrastellar" commonly used by astronomers to refer to objects within our solar system?
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| Aug 27 at 9:51 | history | edited | uhoh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 17, 2019 at 0:39 | vote | accept | uhoh | ||
| Oct 15, 2019 at 19:56 | comment | added | Peter Erwin | @DavidHammen It's a comet which traveled through interstellar space (and will continue on beyond the bounds of the Solar System), so I think "interstellar comet" is OK. (And people are happy to write review articles about "Interstellar Dust in the Solar System", so... | |
| Oct 15, 2019 at 11:08 | comment | added | David Hammen | I would argue that "interstellar comet" is also incorrect, at least with respect to 21/Borisov. It was within the bounds of the solar system at the time of its discovery. Perhaps "rogue comet", to parallel "rogue planet"? | |
| Oct 15, 2019 at 11:01 | comment | added | David Hammen | Note that the linked paper uses the phrase "Solar System comets" rather than"intrastellar comets". The latter phrase appears to be the invention of the author of the CNET article. | |
| Oct 15, 2019 at 8:32 | comment | added | Peter Erwin | Link to the arXiv version of the Nature Astronomy paper: arxiv.org/abs/1909.05851 | |
| Oct 15, 2019 at 7:12 | answer | added | Peter Erwin | timeline score: 11 | |
| Oct 15, 2019 at 4:25 | history | asked | uhoh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |