Oort cloud perturbations as a source of hyperbolic Earth impactorsOPEN ACCESS
Eloy Peña-Asensio, Jaakko Visuri, Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez, Hector Socas-Navarro, Maria Gritsevich, Markku Siljama, Albert Rimola IcarusAvailable online 26 October 2023, 115844 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights Analyzed FH1, the first hyperbolic meteor detected by the Finnish…
Interstellar ObjectsOPEN ACCESS
Darryl Z. Seligman, Amaya Moro-Martín invited review for Contemporary Physics, comments welcome PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Since 2017, two macroscopic interstellar objects have been discovered in the inner Solar System, both of which are distinct in…
Sending a Spacecraft to Interstellar Comet 2I/BorisovOPEN ACCESS
Adam Hibberd, Nikolaos Perakis, Andreas M. Hein PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Preprint submitted to Acta AstronauticaSubmitted on 13 Sep 2019 (v1), last revised 4 Nov 2021 (this version, v3) “In August 2019, a second interstellar object…
Interstellar Now! Missions to Explore Nearby Interstellar Objects
Andreas M. Hein, T. Marshall Eubanks, Manasvi Lingam, Adam Hibberd, Dan Fries, Jean Schneider, Pierre Kervella, Robert Kennedy, Nikolaos Perakis, Bernd Dachwald Advances in Space ResearchAvailable online 7 July 2021 LINK “The recently discovered first…
Gaseous atomic nickel in the coma of interstellar comet 2I/BorisovOPEN ACCESS
Piotr Guzik & Michał Drahus Nature volume 593, pages 375–378 (2021) LINK PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Accepted manuscript with minor post-acceptance corrections “On 31 August 2019, an interstellar comet was discovered as it passed through the…