%0 Journal Article
%A Fuente Marcos, Carlos de la
%A De La Fuente Marcos, Raúl
%T Comet A117uUD Goes Interstellar after Encountering Saturn in 2022
%D 2024
%@ 2515-5172
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/109781
%X Small solar system bodies may reach hyperbolic orbits after a close interaction with a giant planet. Comet C/1980 E1 (Bowell), with a current value of the eccentricity of 1.057733 ± 0.000008, reached its present-day path after a close encounter with Jupiter in 1980. Comet A117uUD was found by ATLAS South Africa on 2024 June 14. Its current orbit determination, based on 142 observations for a data-arc span of 31 days, places A117uUD among the bodies following hyperbolic orbits (19.51σ, eccentricity of 1.037 ± 0.002). However, it did not come from interstellar space. Here, we show that it reached its current hyperbolic trajectory after a close encounter with Saturn in 2022.
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