Interstellar objects like 'Oumuamua could kickstart planet formation

According to a new study, interstellar wanderers like 'Oumuamua may speed up the formation of planets in the gas clouds of newly-formed protostars. Research by Susanne Pfalzner of the Jülich Supercomputing Center, Germany, and Michele Bannister of the School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, indicate that such roving objects might act as seeds that help accelerate the creation of new planets.

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Category: Space

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• Asteroid
• interstellar space
• Planet
• Queens University Belfast

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