[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.

[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.

[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 ...

[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?

[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.

[frog in a pot]

...it may have kicked off some dust particles and/or gases, giving rise to a small speed boost at some point during its approach.

That pretty much explains how, as noted by a prominent NFL television announcer some years ago, a highly regarded quarterback's pass was able to accelerate after being thrown.

[Jim W N]

Oumuamua

Looks like the name of an embryonic stage of another Obama coming to destroy the earth...

[Clutch Martin]

“Whilst we’ve ‘gotten away with this one’, if it had hit Earth, it would have easily erased an entire city.”

Earth abides and always remember Carl Sagan’s exacting quote “Extinction is the rule, and survival is the exception.”

[familyop]

https://youtu.be/EVieCIyWO-U?t=80
(good music to accompany the animation behind the following link)

‘Oumuamua: new findings rejig size
(nice animation there)
https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/oumuamua-new-findings-rejig-size

[amorphous]

Course through solar system looks as if well planned already, and we're there was an actual "correction"?! That's a big "Wow!" signal.

Btw, Voyager 1's Back Thrusters Just Fired Up for the First Time in 37 Years [December 1, 2017]

Hmmmm.....I wonder if NASA is planning one more mission for Voyager 1?