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Astronomers Think They've Found a Whole Population of Rocks From Outside the Solar System
Astronomers think they’ve found an entire population of asteroids originating from outside our solar system, according to a new paper. The objects at the center of this investigation aren’t new discoveries. Called the Centaurs, they’re mysterious asteroids that orbit in the neighborhood of Jupiter and beyond. These objects take highly inclined orbits relative to the plane of the rest of the planets, and in at least one case, orbit the “wrong” way relative to the rest of the solar system’s objects.
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