Discoveries using the telescopes on Mauna Kea

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An unusual object has been spotted near Jupiter.  It's outgassing like a comet, but at a distance much farther from the sun than normally expected.  Hawaii's asteroid alert system with telescopes on Haleakala and Mauna Loa (yes, Mauna Loa) have been monitoring the object's shifting orbit. It's suggested that at some point in the future the object may go interstellar:

Simulations suggest the object originated in the icy Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune, and then flew closer to the sun from a "bucket brigade" of comets kicked in to a region between Jupiter and Neptune. The object, called a "Centaur", will only stay by Jupiter for a couple of years before the planet punts it out of the Trojan zone and forces the outgassing object towards the sun, for further adventures.

Numerous telescopes caught P/2019 LD2 at various stages in its journey. The first to spot it in June 2019 was the University of Hawaii's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope system in Hawaii, and the comet activity was spotted by Japanese amateur astronomer Seiichi Yoshida.
https://www.space.com/interstellar-comet...-asteroids

ATLAS - Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System
https://atlas.fallingstar.com/home.php