A pair of astrophysicists from Spain report evidence that comet A117uUD was put on its current “hyperbolic trajectory” — meaning that it will leave the solar system at some point in the foreseeable future — when it passed Saturn two years ago. Phys.org has more on what would be an extraordinarily rare event: https://flip.it/QUAQVG
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