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P. M. Shober et al 2019 AJ 158 183

An extremely slow fireball was recently observed travelling at just 11 km/s. This object was a “minimoon”, or a temporarily captured orbiter — an object gravitationally captured by the Earth-Moon system.

M. R. Combi et al 2019 ApJL 884 L39

SOHO observations of the hydrogen coma of comet C/2017 S3 (PanSTARRS) allow for an estimate of the size of the nucleus of the comet just before its final outburst and apparent disintegration.

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