What is an interstellar object?
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What is an interstellar object? Unfortunately, the Wikipedia entry didn't help me.
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whatever is outside the solar system.
In the narrower sense, it also refers to asteroids which do not circle a star but are traveling between the stars, eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBOumuamua
inter = between, stellar = star
interstellar = between the stars.
"Interstellar space" is called the space outside our solar system but still within a galaxy.
An "interstellar object" is an object which is located in the interstellar space or comes from there.
As the meaning of the term already says:
An object between the stars
An object that is not bound to a star or galaxy.
An object in interstellar space, in space.