Recent content by Charles Bell

The orbit of 1I/2017 U1 was updated on 2017-Nov-13 with the issuance of MPEC 2017-V63 (2017 Nov. 13) 1I/`OUMUAMUA The latest value of the eccentricity e = 1.1992920 The values of the orbital parameters are only changing out at the 4th or 5th decimal place. Observers W. H. Ryan and E. V. Ryan...

A search on "2017 U1" in arxiv will find the recently submitted papers on 1I/2017 U1 Today I find 10 such new papers. https://arxiv.org/find/all/1/all:+AND+2017+U1/0/1/0/all/0/1

The IAU posted an announcement on 2017-Nov-14 concerning the newly discovered interstellar object that explained its discovery circumstances, its naming and the new designation system. The new object is now officially known as 1I/2017 U1 and named 'Oumuamua which in Hawaiian means “a messenger...