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Note that this doesn't mean that 'Oumuamua comes from the Pleiades themselves. The members of this young cluster are part of the moving group that bears their name, but the vast majority of members have nothing to do with the cluster) (14/n)

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((To avoid confusion in the paper, we use Matariki, the te reo Māori name for the cluster, and Pleiades for the moving group. If accepted, I think this will be the first time Mātariki has appeared in a peer-reviewed astronomy paper as the name of the cluster 15/n))

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