Yes, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is older than the Solar System

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Here in our Solar System, nearly everything we encounter was indeed native to our Solar System itself. The Sun, planets, and moons all originated from the same pre-solar nebula. The objects in the asteroid belt, Kuiper belt, and Oort cloud have that same primordial origin: formed from the same pre-s…

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