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- Interstellar_comet abstract "An interstellar comet is a comet (or exocomet) located in interstellar space, and not gravitationally bound to a star. Although none has yet been conclusively identified, they are conjectured to exist: Gravitational scattering by planets and passing stars has ejected many Oort cloud comets from the Solar System, and the likelihood of similar processes in extrasolar planetary systems suggests the existence of a large population of unbound cometary bodies. At present, an interstellar comet can only be detected if it passes through the Solar System, and could be distinguished from an Oort cloud comet by its strongly hyperbolic trajectory (indicating that it is not gravitationally bound to the Sun). Comets with weakly hyperbolic trajectories have been observed, but the trajectories of these comets are consistent with having been knocked loose from the Oort cloud and do not indicate an origin in interstellar space.Current models of Oort cloud formation indicate that more comets are ejected into interstellar space than are retained in the Oort cloud, by a factor of 3–100. Other simulations suggest 90–99% of comets are ejected. There is no reason to believe comets formed in other star systems would not be similarly scattered. If interstellar comets exist, they must occasionally pass through the inner Solar System. They would approach the Solar System with random velocities, mostly from the region of the constellation Hercules because the Solar System is moving in that direction. The fact that no comet with a speed greater than the Sun's escape velocity has yet been seen places upper limits to their density in interstellar space. A paper by Torbett indicates that the density is no more than 1013 (10 trillion) comets per cubic parsec. Other analyses, of data from LINEAR, set the upper limit at 4.5×10−4/AU3 (1 comet per 2222 cubic AU), or 1012 (1 trillion) comets per cubic parsec.An interstellar comet could, on rare occasions, be captured into a heliocentric orbit while passing through the Solar System. Computer simulations show that Jupiter is the only planet massive enough to capture one, and that this can be expected to occur once every sixty million years. The comet Machholz 1 is a possible example of such a comet. It has an atypical chemical makeup for comets in the Solar system.".
- Interstellar_comet thumbnail Hyakutake_Color.jpg?width=300.
- Interstellar_comet wikiPageID "21694580".
- Interstellar_comet wikiPageRevisionID "602861522".
- Interstellar_comet hasPhotoCollection Interstellar_comet.
- Interstellar_comet subject Category:Comets.
- Interstellar_comet subject Category:Exoplanetology.
- Interstellar_comet subject Category:Hypothetical_astronomical_objects.
- Interstellar_comet type Comet109251407.
- Interstellar_comet type Comets.
- Interstellar_comet type ExtraterrestrialObject109277686.
- Interstellar_comet type HypotheticalAstronomicalObjects.
- Interstellar_comet type NaturalObject100019128.
- Interstellar_comet type Object100002684.
- Interstellar_comet type PhysicalEntity100001930.
- Interstellar_comet type Whole100003553.
- Interstellar_comet comment "An interstellar comet is a comet (or exocomet) located in interstellar space, and not gravitationally bound to a star. Although none has yet been conclusively identified, they are conjectured to exist: Gravitational scattering by planets and passing stars has ejected many Oort cloud comets from the Solar System, and the likelihood of similar processes in extrasolar planetary systems suggests the existence of a large population of unbound cometary bodies.".
- Interstellar_comet label "Cometa interestelar".
- Interstellar_comet label "Cometa interstellare".
- Interstellar_comet label "Comète interstellaire".
- Interstellar_comet label "Interstellar comet".
- Interstellar_comet label "Межзвёздная комета".
- Interstellar_comet label "星際彗星".
- Interstellar_comet sameAs Cometa_interestelar.
- Interstellar_comet sameAs Comète_interstellaire.
- Interstellar_comet sameAs Cometa_interstellare.
- Interstellar_comet sameAs m.05mtthx.
- Interstellar_comet sameAs Q2441216.
- Interstellar_comet sameAs Q2441216.
- Interstellar_comet sameAs Interstellar_comet.
- Interstellar_comet wasDerivedFrom Interstellar_comet?oldid=602861522.
- Interstellar_comet depiction Hyakutake_Color.jpg.
- Interstellar_comet isPrimaryTopicOf Interstellar_comet.
