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by rothbardrand 3123 days ago
I don't think so... it slungshot around the sun, which implies that its in a very large sun oriented orbit. (eg: some random object passing bit for the first time would be likely only slightly disturbed by the suns gravity, not coming so close to it... the latter seems to imply it has been caught by the suns gravity.... or just happened to be aimed nearly directly at the sun.)
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No, they distinctly say it is hyperbolic, not an ellipse, so not orbiting the sun