<div dir="ltr"><font size="4">For the first time an asteroid<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ ​</div>has been found that follows a hyperbolic path not a elliptical one, that means it is not in orbit around the sun but is freely<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ ​</div>traveling<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ ​</div>between the stars. It's about<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ ​</div>1300<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ ​</div>feet<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ ​</div>across and was discovered on Oct 19 <i><b>after</b></i> it had already made its closest approach to Earth (15 million miles) which must have been on Oct 14. It will never come this way again.</font><br><div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/10/27/a-space-rock-from-another-star-is-spotted-in-our-solar-system-a-cosmic-first/?utm_term=.2f342bf9bebc">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/10/27/a-space-rock-from-another-star-is-spotted-in-our-solar-system-a-cosmic-first/?utm_term=.2f342bf9bebc</a>  </font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4">John K Clark</font></div></div></div>