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Has an alien probe entered our solar system? Cigar-shaped interstellar 'comet' ...
www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | Updated: 06:33 EST, 12 December 2017 | By Harry Pettit For Mailonline

Posted on 12/12/2017 6:59:57 AM PST by Red Badger

Astronomers are set to scan an 'alien' comet for signs of extraterrestrial signals The cigar-shaped object, named 'Oumuamua, sailed past Earth last month The mysterious comet is the first interstellar object seen in the solar system Now a team of alien-hunting scientists led by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner is scanning the object for radio signals

Astronomers are set to scan an 'alien' comet for signs of extraterrestrial technology.

The cigar-shaped asteroid, named 'Oumuamua by its discoverers, sailed past Earth last month and is the first interstellar object seen in the solar system.

A team of alien-hunting scientists, led by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, will scan the comet this week before it sails beyond the reach of Earth's telescopes.

They say they are looking for radio signals, claiming the mysterious visitor could be an alien spaceship.

The alien-hunting project will use the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia for its investigation, with the campaign set to begin at 3:00pm ET (8:00pm GMT) on Wednesday.

The telescopes sensitive equipment would would take less than a minute to pick up something as faint as the radio waves from a smartphone, according to the Atlantic.

Milner, the business mogul behind Breakthrough Listen, a $100 million (£75m) search for intelligent extraterrestrial life, received an email about the object last week from one of his chief scientists.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Astronomy; Science; UFO's
KEYWORDS: amirsiraj; asteroid; astronomy; aviloeb; c2017u1; harvard; hyperbolic; interstellar; interstellarobject; jasonwright; oumuamua; science; shmuelbialy; xplanets; yurimilner
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Clarke - pizza man

61 posted on 12/12/2017 7:51:37 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

His early stuff is great!
His later stuff, just about ten years before he passed, is weird. Good, but weird...............


62 posted on 12/12/2017 7:55:50 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Red Badger; Telepathic Intruder
His later stuff, just about ten years before he passed, is weird. Good, but weird...............

I know that I'm in a distinct minority here, but probably my favorite Heinlein book was one his later ones:


63 posted on 12/12/2017 8:01:58 AM PST by BlueLancer (Black Rifle Coffee - Freedom, guns, tits, bacon, and booze!)
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To: Red Badger
Has an alien probe entered our solar system?

I heard the probe is heading for Uranus.

64 posted on 12/12/2017 8:03:30 AM PST by Charles Henrickson (Somebody had to do it.)
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To: LiveFreeOrDie2001

65 posted on 12/12/2017 8:05:08 AM PST by Charles Henrickson
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To: BlueLancer

I have that book!

Enjoyed it and his other later works as well.

Like I said, They are weird!................


66 posted on 12/12/2017 8:14:42 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Noumenon

Really, it’s PACKED with millennia of cultural artifacts and riches from advanced civilizations and it’s set up so if you’ve got good sublight or ftl you can benefit from it and add some of your own and if not, oh well on to the next system...


67 posted on 12/12/2017 8:27:53 AM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Red Badger

Comets are the dirt clods of the universe.

Nothing more.


68 posted on 12/12/2017 8:28:34 AM PST by RedMonqey (“Better to die on your feet than living on your knees”)
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To: Red Badger

And STOCK UP ON TASTY HUMANS FOR THE TRIP!


69 posted on 12/12/2017 8:30:13 AM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: bgill

More likely than not they’d be like the ones in Battleship.


70 posted on 12/12/2017 8:31:20 AM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: allendale

Generation ship.


71 posted on 12/12/2017 8:35:30 AM PST by GingisK
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To: bioqubit

But Rama wasn’t a cigar, it was a potato. Just ask the Russians!


72 posted on 12/12/2017 8:41:52 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: RedMonqey

Yes, but this ‘clod’ is long and skinny!..................


73 posted on 12/12/2017 8:46:50 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: D_Idaho
Not at all. There is science that can be used to get a good idea of its physical dimensions:

The Physics Behind the Strange Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua'

But if you can't see it, how can you describe it? The answer to this (as in many situations in science) is to use indirect observations. The one thing that can be measured is the brightness of the object. Because this rock is also spinning, the light it reflects from the sun changes over time. By looking at the ratio of the brightest to weakest observations, you can get an estimate of largest to smallest size. If you estimate the albedo (a measure of reflectance), you can also estimate the total size. Boom. There you have it—a cigar-shaped asteroid.

74 posted on 12/12/2017 8:47:41 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: Red Badger

+1


75 posted on 12/12/2017 8:52:21 AM PST by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal)
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To: Red Badger
Hmmmmm - cigar-shaped - might be one of them Clinton probes...

Apologies.....

76 posted on 12/12/2017 8:59:14 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Red Badger
p17
77 posted on 12/12/2017 9:02:28 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: Red Badger

no....its a rock Jim.


78 posted on 12/12/2017 9:09:32 AM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: G Larry
It's a LIVING ROCK!...............
79 posted on 12/12/2017 9:24:21 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Klintoon’s used cigar?


80 posted on 12/12/2017 9:28:17 AM PST by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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