An Argument for a Kilometer-Scale Nucleus of C/2019 Q4 [EPA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1909.07286


C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), discovered by Gennady Borisov on August 30, 2019, is tentatively an interstellar comet. We show that a kilometer-scale nucleus would provide consistency with both `Oumuamua and CNEOS-2014-01-08, resulting in a single power-law distribution with an equal amount of mass per logarithmic bin of interstellar objects.

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A. Siraj and A. Loeb
Tue, 17 Sep 19
32/98

Comments: 3 pages, 1 figure; submitted for publication