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It’s official! An interstellar object is visiting our solar system
EarthSky dot org ^ | July 2, 2025 | Kelly Kizer Whitt

Posted on 07/03/2025 5:26:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

Space Truckin’ is a good pick. Here’s one from Klaatu.

Please interstellar policemen,
won’t you give us a sign, give us a sign,
that we’ve reached you.
https://youtu.be/jJ4IUjjVfng?feature=shared


21 posted on 07/03/2025 6:01:13 PM PDT by thepoodlebites (and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.)
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To: BenLurkin

Given that it is very dim, we should call it the Biden-Harris Object.


22 posted on 07/03/2025 6:04:17 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: SunkenCiv

I would sure like to get a sample of it or it’s debris trail to do some mass spectrometer work on.


23 posted on 07/03/2025 6:06:26 PM PDT by 2001convSVT (Asking questions is your right.)
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To: Yardstick

Biden boulder?


24 posted on 07/03/2025 6:06:29 PM PDT by al baby (Whoopie Cushion Goldberg )
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To: SunkenCiv

A democrat federal district court will issue an order instructing Homeland Security to welcome this comet into our atmosphere.


25 posted on 07/03/2025 6:12:03 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: BenLurkin

👍


26 posted on 07/03/2025 6:20:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: SunkenCiv

A rendezvous with Rama?


27 posted on 07/03/2025 6:21:37 PM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: SunkenCiv

I think there’s been more than two objects that have entered our solar system.
Obamalamadingdong was the 3rd because it sure as heck wasn’t from this planet and was, and is, a dim rock. lol


28 posted on 07/03/2025 6:24:13 PM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1
“… rendezvous with Rama…”

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Wow. It’s been decades since I read that one.
Published in 1973.

29 posted on 07/03/2025 6:30:40 PM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: ScottHammett

It would be nice to have something ready for when these come through, and I’d be surprised if these interlopers haven’t been rocketing through the Solar System for billions of years — we just never had means of detecting them before.

The problem of course is their velocity — if we could send a hitchhiking probe fast enough to land on it, we wouldn’t need the interloper. 😎


30 posted on 07/03/2025 6:54:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: dfwgator

Good choice, love the old Barrett music


31 posted on 07/03/2025 7:06:27 PM PDT by mykroar ("It's Not the Nature of the Evidence; It's the Seriousness of the Charge." - El Rushbo)
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1

Rendezvous with Rana, I’ve enjoyed their pesto for years.


32 posted on 07/03/2025 7:20:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: lgjhn23

Just three have definitely been interstellar. There *may* have been more in the past, but there was insufficient data to figure it out.

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

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


33 posted on 07/03/2025 7:24:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: mkmensinger

Yeah, searching for its “Creator”…


34 posted on 07/03/2025 7:38:40 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
Oh no, it’s…it’s…SPACEBALLS!
35 posted on 07/03/2025 7:41:20 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: mkmensinger; dfwgator; Red Badger; null and void

(VGER)

Bald-headed woman 🎵🎵🎶
Bald-headed woman to me! 🎵🎵🎶


36 posted on 07/03/2025 7:48:16 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in thays of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SunkenCiv

The basis for claiming that is the orbit…

There could be some other reason for the orbit.


37 posted on 07/03/2025 7:51:03 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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To: SunkenCiv

they’ll spend million of (probably our tax) dollars “studying this visitor

when we all know it is no mystery, just Santa Claus out for a summertime flyby to check up on whether Planet Earth is still here or not

he has to know now in order to plan his gift making enterprise (and to know if his reindeer herd can handle the deliveries or whether he needs to call FedEx to help)


38 posted on 07/03/2025 8:33:10 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III
Maybe it's a Fireball.....


39 posted on 07/03/2025 8:35:53 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SunkenCiv

40 posted on 07/03/2025 8:42:56 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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