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Evening Standard
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Mark Blunden and Rachelle Abbott

OPINION - Tech & Science Daily podcast: Mystery of Oumuamua ‘alien spaceship’ solved

Research by the University of California, Berkeley and Cornell University sheds new light on how the interstellar flying object Oumuamua propelled itself.

Some believed because the 57,000mph space rock - which is about a quarter of a mile long and flew within 15 million miles of Earth in 2017 - did not have the traditional characteristics of a comet, that it could be some kind of extraterrestrial spacecraft.

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