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Hawaii astronomer discovers ‘odd’ space object

COURTESY ROB RATKOWSKI

The Pan-STARRS1 Observatory atop Haleakala at sunset. Rob Weryk, a University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy postdoctoral researcher, first spotted the first near-Earth space object to have arrived here from beyond our solar system late Oct. 18 during the course of his nightly search for near-Earth objects for NASA at UH’s Pan-STARRS telescope on Haleakala.