Sentences with phrase «official designation 1i»

«Oumuamua (official designation 1I / 2017 U1 - the «I» is for «interstellar») was first spotted by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii in late October, and it didn't take long for astrophysicists to figure out that both its trajectory and its velocity indicated that it was an extrasolar stranger, perhaps flung out by a neighboring star.