It's Mighty Mouse!
Posted on 10/27/2017 2:50:50 PM PDT by Red Badger
Astronomers around the world are trying to track down a small, fast-moving object that is zipping through our solar system. Is a comet? An asteroid? NASA's not sure. The space agency doesn't even know where it came from, but it's not behaving like the local space rocks and that means it may not be from our solar system. If that's confirmed, NASA says "it would be the first interstellar object to be observed and confirmed by astronomers."
NASA says astronomers are pointing telescopes on the ground and in space at the object to get that data. For now, the object is being called A/2017 U1. Experts think it's less than a quarter-mile (400 meters) in diameter and it's racing through space at 15.8 miles (25.5 kilometers) per second. It was discovered October 19 by the University of Hawaii's Pan-STARRS 1 telescope on Haleakala, Hawaii. Rob Weryk, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, was the first to identify the object and immediately realized there was something different about it. "Its motion could not be explained using either a normal solar system asteroid or comet orbit," he said. "This object came from outside our solar system." Whatever "it" is, the object isn't a threat to Earth.
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I’m good... I have my towel.
If it violates the laws of physics, it’s demonic activity.
It's Mighty Mouse!
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Here he comes to save the day...
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LOL! Those were the good old days weren't they?
I wouldn't trade the experiences of my youth and the limited TV for any amount of money
Well.....any port in a storm, I guess.
This space object has been attracted to earth due to globull warming.
Every living thing will die!
Fireball XL5! Yay!
Well, if I die, I hope there’s enough time to finish my sandwich and order brakes for the wife’s car.
Aliens! Wow! They’ll do anything to change to change the subject won’t they?
Relax. There will be 2 more of them.
Islamic terrorism ruled out.
In before I fall asleep.
It’s just an interstellar probe for the local self-replicating hegemonic swarm. However, if it changes course, it might be from some other local war fleet spying a easy takeover.
Terri Garr was so young and adorable in that episode
Yes, Until you piss them off...............
Cylindrical and 20 miles long?.........................
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