"The new study lines up with research published last year that suggested Oumuamua was a hydrogen iceberg ejected by a molecular cloud."
That "published" article was not "research" but a non-scientific journalist’s speculation in commentary which was also published in the Sun… no one has EVER seen ”solid hydrogen" much less a "hydrogen iceberg," especially one which evinces zero surface sublimation to gaseous hydrogen … nor has anyone postulated how a "molecular cloud" could form or eject such an iceberg! The Sun is notorious for making such unattributed claims as this about its own previous assertions.
What point was served in this article about seeking names of random nobodies to send those names, not the nobodies, to Mars?
These "researchers" seem ignorant of Boyle’s Laws and the actions of gasses.
If it did indeed come from a cold, dark clump of dust and gas, these "scientists" better ask themselves "What possible force could have been applied to Oumuamua to accelerate it away from the cold, dusty, gassy, clumpy area to ~200,000 MPH and into an interstellar orbit to intersect our Solar System?”
not sure what I believe, hydrogen spaceberg seems a bit more glamorous and 'safer' than the ego-killer of being passed over and rejected as insignificant by aliens cruising by, with not so much as an Engish countryside crop circle to commemorate the event. ;)
They are desperately trying to obscure that the object acted more like a probe than a random rock. Too much ‘alien’ stuff in the news lately, so gotta focus on Earth and eliminate stories that are, on the face of it, more scary.
Also, shortly after the object appeared, there was a photo representation of another more distant object passing through at the same time with the same shape; since this only appeared once and no more was said, I wonder if that story was true or what.
“What possible force could have been applied to Oumuamua to accelerate it away from the cold, dusty, gassy, clumpy area to ~200,000 MPH and into an interstellar orbit to intersect our Solar System?”
Me, me! I’ll take a guess...gravity?