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Originally Posted by Jim Shelton, Yale University

Gregory Laughlin and Malena Rice weren't exactly surprised a few weeks ago when they learned that a second interstellar object had made its way into our solar system.

The Yale University astronomers had just put the finishing touches on a new study suggesting that these strange, icy visitors from other planets are going to keep right on coming. We can expect a few large objects showing up every year, they say; smaller objects entering the solar system could reach into the hundreds each year.

The study has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Story here :-
https://phys.org/news/2019-09-ready-...tronomers.html

Paper here :-
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.06387.pdf