7 of the Oddest Things about 'Oumuamua Other than Its Name

interestingengineering.com/ ^ | December, 28th 2018 | Christopher McFadden

[DesertRhino]

Who gave it that idiotic name?

[NotQuiteCricket]

“4. It’s the first interstellar object we’ve managed to observe”

Seriously? Really?

There is something being left out of that statement that would make it true.

[Seruzawa]

In a universe of unfathomable size and age anything is possible.

[LouieFisk]

“Who gave it that idiotic name?”
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Maybe the guy who discovered it, when he first saw it, said “Ooooh, Mama!!!” and it stuck?

[MV=PY]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQrQjNNZCAo

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

“...orbiting within our solar system”. (Which may or may not be true.)

[Army Air Corps]

We don't really know what it's made of

It is composed of all the firearms and ammunition lost in boating accidents.

[PIF]

8) it had a twin on a different course and further away.

[MrEdd]

An astronomer saw it and said “Oh mama!”
The lab writers for the observatory gave it a weird spelling.

[Menehune56]

Who gave it that idiotic name?

I thought it looked Hawaiian and I was right. Scroll down to "Nomenclature."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ʻOumuamua

[PIF]

This additional subtle force on ‘Oumuamua likely is caused by jets of gaseous material expelled from its surface. This same kind of outgassing affects the motion of many ...”

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Steering jets work the same way for course corrections ...

[Truthoverpower]

Sounds like a Hawaiian flower or fish 🐠

[Army Air Corps]

Seriously? I would like to know more about that.

[PIF]

All these mysteries will be clarified when the alpha predator who sent them arrives ...

[x]

"Oumuamua"?

Help me out here.

Wrestler or football player?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

“4. It’s the first interstellar object we’ve managed to observe”

Seriously? Really?

There is something being left out of that statement that would make it true.

Other than gas clouds illuminated by stars and black holes, which are only "observable" by their gravitational influence and occasional gravity waves. I suppose he should have said "discrete object not gravitationally bound to a particular star". It certainly appears to be gravitationally bound to the Milky Way. There are stars that are not. Of those stars about 6/7's have been ejected by interaction with other stars, and one-seventh appear to be intergalactic visitors.

[Ezekiel]

1. We have absolutely no idea where it came from
2. We don't really know what it looks like

It's a real-time analog of 'last days' confusion.

[I want the USA back]

Some of the oddest things about obama, other than his name.
1. We have absolutely no idea where it came from. He says Hawaii. We know Kenya.
2. We don’t really know what it’s like. The media gave us a false image of him.
5. We don’t really know what it’s made of. Certainly not human.
6. It’s not going to stay around. Unfortunately, it stayed around too long.
7. It shows we were not really prepared for an America-hating muzzy-loving marxist.

[null and void]

Much too small.