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Two Bats Out of Hell: The Amazing New Objects 2017 K2 and 2017 U1


Nov. 28, 2017, 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Geology 3656

Presented By:
David Jewitt
UCLA

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I will describe two exciting objects discovered this year. K2 is a comet infalling from the Oort cloud and discovered to be active at unprecedented distances, far beyond the orbit of Uranus. U1 is the first-discovered interstellar interloper and, I believe, the tip of the iceberg. I will describe in an accessible way the big-picture significance of these objects for cometary science and for understanding the formation of the solar system.