Observers stationed at the Moon's farside McInnis observatory announced the discovery of a new interstellar object which they have classified L15513 and nicknamed "Lizzie", This object, which is expected to intersect Saturnine orbit in August of 2202, appears to be composed of a variety of materials not usually found in asteroids or other stellar flotsam.

Dr. Paul Kohler, a specialist in Gas Giants and the observatories director noted: "We really don't see much in the way of interstellar debris this sizable that often, so we're hoping we can launch a probe to sample the object sometime in the next few years. With any luck, we'd be able to get a sample back to the moon for study. This is an unusual object in a lot of ways...most stellar debris doesn't really read the way this one does. We're finding a lot of potential biological material on the object, which make us think that this is a fragment of a planet or something outside our experience."

When asked if the fragment poses any threat to Earth, Dr. Kohler dismissed it as a possibility, "The likelihood of it hitting Saturn is low enough, it is infinitesimally unlikely to strike earth, many people don't really understand how far away Saturn is from the Earth, but our calculations would have to be egregiously off to make such a mistake, and they're not. The finest minds in the moon have plotted Lizzie's course over the last few days and while there might be some danger to [Saturnine Satellites] Thethys or Dione, there is nothing really to worry about on Earth or the Moon. That's a good thing too, because Lizzie is large enough to crack the planet in two. It's hardly fair to call her an asteroid, she's more moon sized."

Lizzie appears to be mostly iron and nickel, with a fair amount of carbon as well. Approximately 250 kilometers wide and traveling 75,000 kilometers per hour, the fragment should pass through our solar system in mid August, 2202. At the time of this writing, Lizzie is about 4 and a half light hours away from our solar system. Dr. Kohler said that he initially thought that the fragment was an imaging error with the observatory, but repeated viewing of the object confirmed its existence. L15513 was detected during a scan in the area known as the Crab Nebula, which is part of the constellation Taurus. Lizzie's nickname is derived from the shape of the object, which looks somewhat like an axe head.

This isn't the first time Dr. Kohler has been in the spotlight. He also chaired the FSA lunar planning commission in the early 80's, overseeing completion of the teleportation link between the earth and the moon and the construction of the McInnis observatory which is located in the Moscoviense complex on the Moon's farside.