Posted on 02/13/2018 7:02:10 AM PST by Voption
Shaken, not Stirred.
At least it knew to turn right at Albuquerque.
Please, spread the word far and wide..Fictionology.. I of course reserve the right to apply to the IRS as the founder of fictionology for tax exempt status for my church and expect a cut from all sales of fictionology promotion and training materials. ( imitation being the most sarcashtic form of flattery in this case)
>>>Is this your own blog?<<<
The Poster is officially Humblegunnered.
If we only had a Technology that could locate killer Asteroids that matched the one you have to locate Blog Pimps, Humankind would be no longer be living in fear. #;^)
No need to click through if you just put the last couple of paragraphs of the blog here. Seriously, it wasn’t that long, especially if you clip off the begging for donations part.
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A new analysis of the data obtained when the interstellar object Oumuamua flew through the solar system in October 2016 suggests that it is tumbling in a chaotic manner, and that the surface is spotty.
Straight away, they discovered that ‘Oumuamua wasn’t spinning periodically like most of the small asteroids and bodies that we see in our solar system. Instead, it is tumbling, or spinning chaotically, and could have been for many billions of years.
While it is difficult to pinpoint the exact reason for this, it is thought that `Oumuamua impacted with another asteroid before it was fiercely thrown out of its system and into interstellar space. Dr Fraser explains: “Our modelling of this body suggests the tumbling will last for many billions of years to hundreds of billions of years before internal stresses cause it to rotate normally again.
To me, this data settles the question about whether Oumuamua is not an artificial structure. It is not. If it were, an impact that would have caused this kind of tumbling would have almost certainly destroyed it. Instead, it likely broke the original bolide up, producing many fragments, including Oumuamua and its elongated shape.
As for the object’s spottiness:
Dr Fraser explains: “Most of the surface reflects neutrally but one of its long faces has a large red region. This argues for broad compositional variations, which is unusual for such a small body.”
It is really a shame we couldn’t get a closer look before it sped away.
Not to worry about us. The average species only lasts about 5 million years (or maybe it is genus), so we will all be long gone.
It was on a youtube video taken by amateur astronomer - they are getting very sophisticated these days - they are able to take photos of solar objects rivaling NASA’s and better (those released anyway).
I think I did a search on there for Oumuamua
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