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Canadian astronomer
Artist’s impression of the interstellar object
ʻOumuamua.
[1]
Robert J. Weryk (born 1981) is a Canadian
physicist and
astronomer.
[2] He currently works at the
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where he discovered the first known
interstellar object,
ʻOumuamua.
[3]
[4]
[5] He has also published numerous articles on
meteors and other astronomical topics.
[6]
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"ESO's VLT Sees 'Oumuamua Getting a Boost - New results indicate interstellar nomad 'Oumuamua is a comet". www.eso.org. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
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"Astronomer Robert Weryk discovers the world's first interstellar asteroid". London Morning. 31 October 2017. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
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^ Fleur, Nicholas St (27 October 2017).
"Astronomers Race to Study a Mystery Object From Outside Our Solar System".
The New York Times.
ISSN
0362-4331. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
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^ Greicius, Tony (26 October 2017).
"Small Asteroid or Comet 'Visits' from Beyond the Solar System".
NASA. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
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"Updated: For the first time, astronomers are tracking a distant visitor streaking through our solar system". Science | AAAS. 27 October 2017. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
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^ Meech, Karen J.; Weryk, Robert; Micheli, Marco; Kleyna, Jan T.; Hainaut, Olivier R.; Jedicke, Robert; Wainscoat, Richard J.; Chambers, Kenneth C.; Keane, Jacqueline V. (20 November 2017).
"A brief visit from a red and extremely elongated interstellar asteroid".
Nature. 552 (7685): 378–381.
Bibcode:
2017Natur.552..378M.
doi:
10.1038/nature25020.
ISSN
1476-4687.
PMC
8979573.
PMID
29160305.