was confirmed, it was renamed to 1I/?Oumuamua - "1" because it is the first such object to be discovered, "I" for interstellar, and "?Oumuamua" is a Hawaiian word meaning "a messenger from afar arriving first".

The lack of cometary activity from ?Oumuamua suggests an origin from the inner regions of whatever stellar system it came from, losing all surface volatiles within the frost line, much like the rocky asteroids, extinct comets