You never know till you send a team to the object to investigate.
Posted on 07/01/2019 9:19:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin
It is the first known object to pass through the solar system from outside, but experts have failed to explain where the object, called 'Oumuamua' came from.
The mysterious cigar-shaped projectile - formally named the object 1I/2017 U1 - defies description with characteristics resembling both a comet and an asteroid.
Oumuamua...spins like a coke bottle and accelerates like a comet, but without the gas jets often seen trailing them.
The study’s co-author, Dr. Matthew Knight, an associate research scientist in the University of Maryland Department of Astronomy, said: “The alien spacecraft hypothesis is a fun idea, but … our preference is to stick with analogs we know, unless or until we find something unique."
Scientists think it could have entered our solar system after being ejected by a gas giant planet orbiting another star.
And researchers said Jupiter may have created some of its own interstellar travelers by sneaking some of its icy objects through the sun’s gravity field and into foreign solar systems.
They are awaiting fresh data from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) in 2022 which could reveal more.
"In the next 10 years, we expect to begin seeing more objects like Oumuamua.
"We may start seeing a new object every year. That's when we'll start to know whether Oumuamua is weird, or common.
“If we find 10-20 of these things and Oumuamua still looks unusual, we'll have to reexamine our explanations."
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Ping.
Be ready to duck, as necessary...
It’s 1960 again, duck duck get down
About a 1/4 mile long and only about 40 meters wide. This weird monkey is about the size of an aircraft carrier.
Here is a short video about 3 minutes long.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/details.php?id=1508
It’s the Doomsday machine!
Intergalactic doobie on it way to a galaxy far far away, where no man has traveled before. Cheech and Chong eat your hearts out.
Oumuamua - sounds like the title of a Pink Floyd album.
“sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”.... Sigmond Freud
and “sometimes it isn’t just a cigar”... BillyGoat Clinton
you know
they assert it ISNT a space ship
but then they say they have no idea what it IS
...those two statements don’t jive together very well
if they don’t know what it is, how do they know what it isn’t????
(and how do they know what an alien space ship would or would not look like, anyway?)
Clint Howard always gives me the creeps in his role as Balok.
He was 7 or 8 then. Just creepy. And those teeth.
He continues to give me the creeps, to this day.
He’s consistent like that.
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