‘Oumuamua “Sped Up” in the Inner Solar System. This Might Be Why.

.skyandtelescope.com ^ | March 12, 2019 | Camille M. Carlisle

[Red Badger]

Speeding up is fine.

Slowing down is not.................

[UCANSEE2]

Gee.... I wonder if something like a Jupiter-sized planet that has a highly elliptical orbit that only brings it near the Sun and Earth every 11,000-20,000 years could have sped up Oumuamua on it’s way out of the solar system ?

[x]

‘Oumuamua “Sped Up” in the Inner Solar System.

Well, they always said that President Oumuamua was "The Chosen One," so why not?

[UCANSEE2]

It’s just as likely that Oumuamua neither slowed down nor sped up. It was (like most objects in space) not even traveling a straight line. Most likely is that our measurements were off.

[UCANSEE2]

Why couldn’t ‘solar wind’ (which we claim could push a ‘solar sail’) slow Oumuamua down as it was approaching and speed it up as it exited ?

[BenLurkin]

[Red Badger]

There was some sci-fi flick where some astronomers were monitoring some asteroid coming into the solar system and it suddenly slowed down..........it was not a rock................

[Moonman62]

Those who built Oumuamua do everything in threes.

[Openurmind]

That is very likely possible... Or it’s magnetic and the poles switched to like kind after it went by giving it a repulsion push rather than a previous pull.

[jurroppi1]

Or maybe it heard it’s name one too many times thinking instead they were cat calls and it sped up out of fear of rape-rape.

[PIF]

Hey! US astronomers have a real mystery ... oh wait ... here’s the solution - how dumb were we to overlook something so simple. Mystery solved. Oh wait ... the answer does not fit the actual observations ...

Maybe is was an alien probe ... like the other one - a near twin - we do not like to mention again..

[PIF]

They only saw two - the famous one and another they do not like to mention again, having mentioned it only once.

One is just an oddity, two is not an oddity, three is some one knocking. Or more likely doing a survey looking for potential competitors to eliminate.

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[steve86]

Yeah, that happens but something caused this body to act differently from others visiting the solar system. The solar wind (given a certain intensity) would affect all bodies equally depending on surface area and mass. That brings to mind a possibility for Oumuamua to be pushed around a little more... if it is hollow!

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Not to worry. There will be 2 more of them.

[Windflier]

"Oumuamua appeared to hit the gas on its way out of the inner solar system."

Don't all interstellar spaceships do that?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks fieldmarshaldj. Is such a thing even possible? Yes, it is. ;^)

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