The first recorded interstellar visitor has natural origins, despite previous speculation by some other astronomers that the object could be an alien spacecraft.
For the first time, astronomers demonstrated that UH telescopes can provide sufficient warning to move people away from the impact site of an incoming asteroid.
A small, recently discovered asteroid or comet appears to have originated from outside the solar system, if so it could be the first “interstellar object” to be observed and confirmed by astronomers.