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Study Suggests the Solar System May Hold Captured Interstellar Objects
Key Takeaways
- Researchers modeled how close stellar encounters could transfer small bodies between star systems.
- The study suggests thousands of captured interstellar objects may reside in the Oort cloud.
- Direct exploration is not currently feasible, so the result is a theoretical population estimate rather than direct detection.
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