[BenLurkin]

ping

[xkaydet65]

Maybe it is an interstellar probe.

[chaosagent]

Rendezvous with Rama?

[AnotherUnixGeek]

These revealed that `Oumuamua measured some 400 meters (1312 feet) long, is very elongated, and spins on its axis every 7.3 hours – as indicated by the way its brightness varies by a factor of ten.

It was also determined to be rocky and metal rich, and to contain traces of tholins – organic molecules that have been irradiated by UV radiation. The asteroid also has an extremely hyperbolic orbit – with an eccentricity of 1.2 – which is currently taking it out of our Solar System. Preliminary calculations of its orbit also indicated that it originally came from the general direction of Vega, the brightest star in the northern constellation of Lyra.

I'd better read Arthur C. Clarke's "Rendezvous with Rama" again - best to be prepared.

[Steely Tom]

Would be extremely expensive, but the object seems too interesting to let pass.

[onedoug]

‘Wonder how old this object is?

[rdl6989]

Isnt’t the object too far and moving away too fast to ever catch it?

[RandallFlagg]

https://youtu.be/XyCJ57eQyoE

Starring William Windom as Matt Decker.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Papa Oumuamua

[Berosus]

I hear the asteroid is already heading out of the solar system. Therefore if we’re going to send a probe to it, I wouldn’t count on NASA to build and launch the probe in time, what with their bloated bureaucracy.