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Space, the final blunt-tier: Binary system ejected huge 'spliff' asteroid, boffins reckon

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There are likely thousands or millions of bits of interstellar junk passing through our solar system all the time. It's just that we haven't had the technology to detect them until now. I'd expect we'll see the detection of quite a few larger lumps soon until they get ignored as being common.

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