Happy Valentine's Day! If you're not seeing this on a Valentine Day then Happy Late Valentine's Day! The comet(or asteroid) is called Oumuamua, which in the Hawaiian language means "scout". Oumuamua is passing through the Solar System. It is the first interstellar object to do so. It is believed that Oumuamua is an an exotic type of comet or asteroid, but it has such an odd shape that some astronomers have speculated it could be an alien spacecraft. Oumuamua is currently moving away from Earth at nearly twice the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest spacecraft ever built. The asteroid travels about 500 million miles per year(the average distance between the Earth and Jupiter) which means it will enter interstellar space in the late 2030's.
Oumuamua was discovered three days after its closest approach to Earth at 0.16 AU, after it had passed closest to the Sun on September 9, 2017. Sorry the title is long. And sorry I keep using the same music for most projects, it sounds really sad but happy at the same time and makes me think of Saturn, the planet, because I took this from a video about Saturn.
