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Interesting. This came in at ~30 km/sec. And Oumuamua came in at ~26 km/sec.

It seems that "the Sun moves through the Milky Way at about 20 km/s faster than the local average", or "local standard of rest (LSR)".[0] With the components being ...

    11.1 km/s toward the galactic center
    12.24 km/s extra in the direction of galactic rotation
    7.25 km/s toward the north galactic pole
Some ~nearby stars are coming through the galactic plane at 150 km/sec or so relative to LSR.

These objects probably came from stars with relatively low velocities relative to LSR. There might be some moving a lot faster, but the detection window would be much smaller.

0) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_kinematics




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