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It turns out we have plenty of particles from another star system already here

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Researchers from the University of Western Ontario say there could be as many as a million objects from Alpha Centauri in our Oort cloud.

Alpha Centauri is a mature star system, at 5 billion years old , but most of its protoplanetary disk has likely already dissipated.

There could be a million over- one-hundred-meter -in-diameter-sized objects from the system already lurking.

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