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Michele Bannister

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The Age of Interstellar Visitors

By Michele Bannister
January 29, 2020
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As astronomers get better at finding the comets and asteroids of other stars, they’ll learn more about the universe and our place in it.

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Michele Bannister is an award-winning planetary astronomer who specializes in the exploration and observation of small worlds in the solar system and beyond. She is a lecturer at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and a visiting scholar at Queen's University Belfast, UK.

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