Interstellar comet · 2I
2I/Borisov
Size~975 m
Speed~177,000 km/h
Eccentricity3.36 (unbound)
Found30 Aug 2019
The first confirmed interstellar comet: it formed around another star.
In March 2020 Hubble saw signs that a fragment had broken off its nucleus.
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