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We May Have Had an Interstellar Visitor for Eons and Scientists Are Stumped
Motherboard ^ | Becky Ferreira

Posted on 02/06/2023 7:58:53 AM PST by BenLurkin

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To: BenLurkin
and its orbit is highly tilted, causing it to pass closer to the Sun than almost any other comet.

Causing? How would a orbit at a large angle to Eart's orbital plane cause it to have a smaller perihelion distance?

21 posted on 02/06/2023 9:10:40 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Gain of Pfunction. Gain of Pfunding. Gain of Pfizer )
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To: Leaning Right

The Men in Black’s primary news source!


22 posted on 02/06/2023 9:16:04 AM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: Leaning Right

The Men in Black’s primary news source!


23 posted on 02/06/2023 9:16:04 AM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: Red Badger

That was a great novel. It’s worth a re-read.


24 posted on 02/06/2023 9:17:49 AM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: telescope115

I just finished the 3rd book of the series...................


25 posted on 02/06/2023 9:19:02 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Larry Lucido

““the object is bizarrely depleted in common materials, like carbon””

The sentence continues and ends with “and cyanogen”. Never heard that word before.


26 posted on 02/06/2023 9:41:17 AM PST by cymbeline
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Yes. I figure the substance is either bad, or good. Depends on whether it’s an election year.


27 posted on 02/06/2023 9:42:38 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: BenLurkin

They write these as if our solar system is static. When the reality is we are corkscrewing through who knows what all and that things can be collected along the way. It may not have moved in on us, we may have ran it over and picked it up like a nail in a tire. Kind of scary actually, we are a crash ready to happen at any moment as we corkscrew through the galaxy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuaPyQFrYk


28 posted on 02/06/2023 10:27:14 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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“I figure the substance is either bad, or good. “

It’s in wikipedia. No mention of a role in our environment. It’s poisonous.


29 posted on 02/06/2023 10:51:57 AM PST by cymbeline
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Oumuamua, stupid PC name.
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30 posted on 02/06/2023 11:45:52 AM PST by rxh4n1
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To: Red Badger

I think I read #1 & #2. Gonna have to take a trip to the bookstore.


31 posted on 02/06/2023 12:39:53 PM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: telescope115

There are 3 more books in the series but not written by Clarke, written by Gentry Lee, his co-author for the other books.............

32 posted on 02/06/2023 12:48:08 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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