New Delhi: Astronomers have discovered the third known interstellar object, designated as 3I/Atlas. The object was initially spotted on 1 July by a telescope in Chile, and was provisionally designated as A11pl3Z. The object appeared to be travelling so fast, that it would zip in and out of the Solar System in a hyperbolic orbit. Amateur astronomers were able to confirm that the orbit was highly eccentric, deviating from a perfect circle more than any other known object, with an eccentricity of six. A combination of observations conducted before the discovery of the object, and observations by astronomical instruments were used to........

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