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ESO Observations Show First Interstellar Asteroid is Like Nothing Seen Before
European Southern Observatory ^ | 11/20/17 | eso

Posted on 11/20/2017 3:26:38 PM PST by C210N

"... It appears to be a dark, reddish, highly-elongated rocky..."

"varies dramatically in brightness by a factor of ten as it spins on its axis every 7.3 hours."


(Excerpt) Read more at eso.org ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: amirsiraj; asteroid; astronomy; aviloeb; c2017u1; guam; harvard; hyperbolic; interstellar; interstellarobject; jasonwright; johnson; oumuamua; science; shmuelbialy; yurimilner
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Looks like Guam did more than merely tip over.
1 posted on 11/20/2017 3:26:38 PM PST by C210N
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To: C210N

lol


2 posted on 11/20/2017 3:27:31 PM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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I aim to misbehave.


3 posted on 11/20/2017 3:27:36 PM PST by OwenKellogg (Merry Christmas!)
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To: C210N

Don’t show this photo to any women or you’ll lose your job due to sexual harassment.


4 posted on 11/20/2017 3:29:21 PM PST by BobL ( I drive a pickup truck because it makes me feel like a man.)
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To: C210N

Now I’ve got the theme song to 2001 playing in my head.


5 posted on 11/20/2017 3:30:57 PM PST by rightwingcrazy
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To: BobL

I can hear the feminists crying now “its proof of universal patriarchy”


6 posted on 11/20/2017 3:35:22 PM PST by GunHoardingCapitalist (The dumber society becomes, the wiser i am in their eyes.)
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To: C210N

Admiral, there be whales here


7 posted on 11/20/2017 3:35:44 PM PST by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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To: C210N

Fascinating.


8 posted on 11/20/2017 3:37:34 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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Probe coming to take obama home


9 posted on 11/20/2017 3:39:15 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians aren’t born, they’re excreted.” - Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: C210N
I've seen this before...


10 posted on 11/20/2017 3:39:47 PM PST by Flick Lives (The FBI is a taxpayer funded Mafia organization)
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Looks like a starship septic facility dump, frozen in space.


11 posted on 11/20/2017 3:40:53 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine (White is the new Black.)
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To: Flick Lives

I was gonna go with a broken Zentradi cruiser adrift in space (from Macross / Robotech anime) but that works too.


12 posted on 11/20/2017 3:42:00 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: C210N

First in with this is a fragment associated with other objects: one of which will be Wormwood from Revelation.


13 posted on 11/20/2017 3:43:05 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

14 posted on 11/20/2017 3:47:35 PM PST by sparklite2 (-)
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To: BobL

Your thinking Monica would somehow find this thing familiar?


15 posted on 11/20/2017 3:48:07 PM PST by C210N (It is easier to fool the people than convince them that they have been fooled)
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To: Flick Lives

Just wait till “V’Ger” gets back.


16 posted on 11/20/2017 3:53:01 PM PST by Revel
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To: C210N

Yup... Things are going to get weird.

17 posted on 11/20/2017 3:55:04 PM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: BobL
Remember Mrs Fowler, the 80+ year old crazy women in the Clint Eastwood movie "Coogan's Bluff?

Lieutenant McElroy: "(Mrs. Fowler)you can't make out a rape complaint and then just take off...we've got an APB out for that guy"
Mrs. Fowler: "The streets aren't safe in this town"
McElroy: "You made another rape complaint four months ago and I sent a detective up to talk to you at the time."
Mrs. Fowler: "He tried to rape me, too"
McElroy: "Did "I" ever try to rape you?"
Mrs. Fowler: (waves her finger at him and smiles)
McElroy: "Get her outta here!"
(as the cop escorts her out of the room...)
Cop: "Lady, you need a psychiatrist"
Mrs. Fowler: "I went to one and he tried to rape me, too"
McElroy: "OUT! OUT!"

18 posted on 11/20/2017 4:03:07 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (FUMSM)
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Looks like _ _ _ _, Smells like _ _ _ _, Taste like _ _ _ _, Good thing we didn't step in it.

19 posted on 11/20/2017 4:13:11 PM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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Why are there stars behind that asteroid? Our space cameras can not see stars.


20 posted on 11/20/2017 5:22:18 PM PST by itsahoot (As long as there is money to be divided, there will be division.)
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