'Snowman from a dark and cold place': Interstellar comet is an unusual visitor from outer space

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'Snowman from a dark and cold place': Interstellar comet is an unusual visitor from outer space
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We've got a weird visitor from outer space.

“Comets are left-over building blocks from the time of planet formation," he said."For the first time, we have been able to measure the chemical composition of such a building block from another planetary system while it flew through our own solar system,” Bodewits added to Reuters.

Comet 2I/Borisov was spotted on Aug. 30, 2019, by comet hunter Gennady Borisov in Crimea. The vagabond comet resembles other solar system comets, but astronomers determined its interstellar origins based on its orbital path. The comet consists of a loose agglomeration of ices and dust particles, and is likely no more than 3,200 feet across, about the length of nine football fields.

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