Messenger from far away: the first ever Asteroid from another Star named ‘Oumuamua’

Mumbai, November 17: “Space”, the world itself creates an image of great void but with a weird awe. Till now thousands of mysteries are not known to even space scientists, astronauts. We have ever wondered if we have any neighbor or not now it turns out at least there is another star system from which a visitor has been in interstellar space. The interloper has been named 'Oumuamua, which means "a messenger from afar arriving first" in Hawaii.

For the first time ever such object has been discovered. The object was detected on October 19 by researchers using the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii. Though first it was thought a comet after further observations it was designated as an asteroid as the fuzzy cloud of gas and dust that surrounds a comet's core was never found.

"We have been waiting for this day for decades," Paul Chodas, manager of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at the NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in a statement after it was spotted. "It's long been theorized that such objects exist — asteroids or comets moving around between the stars and occasionally passing through our solar system — but this is the first such detection," he added.

Though scientists are not sure till now that what is the basic ingredient of it, they suggested it will be ice dominated as it was far away from the sun. Its path is taking the body out of the solar system. Other hyperbolic objects have been spotted before, but they were nudged onto escape trajectories by gravitational interactions with planets. Hence no theories worked out for it as an object within our solar system, scientists conclude it came from somewhere else.