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Exhibit 2156 · Magazine

Space.com: 'Oumuamua: A guide to the 1st known interstellar visitor

Space.com

Yes, I would, especially because after 'Oumuamua and Borisov, it's been pretty quiet on the interstellar-object-discovery front. So that's two objects since 2017 — two in six years. We argued that "current capabilities" started in perhaps 2015 — that's the current (pre-Rubin Observatory) set of discovery telescopes. So, two objects in eight years is, for astronomers, very close to one every five years.
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