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A team of international asteroid and comet experts now agree that ʻOumuamua, the first recorded interstellar visitor, has natural origins, despite previous speculation by some other astronomers that the object could be an alien spacecraft sent from a distant civilization to examine our star system.

‘Oumuamua: Comet or Alien Probe? ʻOumuamua, the interstallar object with a Hawaiian name is drawing attention again, this time for a new theory about its origins.

The interstellar object that was discovered last month with the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope atop Haleakalā on Maui, now has a name — ʻOumuamua.