Oumuamua, seriously what are the odds

[Fort Fun Indiana]

There was literally nothing about it to indicate that it was a "normal" asteroid.

Right. It was a metallic rock from interstellar space.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Astronomers Want To Know: Does This Interstellar Visitor Have A Message For Us?

As it turns out, real astronomers are being compelled to have a look. I relent in that it does make sense to at least check, but I think I can predict the result.

 

[waltky]

Uncle Ferd says it looks like sumpin ' dat's been squeezed through a black hole...

Our First Interstellar Visitor Likely Came From Two-star System
March 19, 2018 — Our first known interstellar visitor likely came from a two-star system.

That's the latest from astronomers who were amazed by the mysterious cigar-shaped object, detected as it passed through our inner solar system last fall. The University of Toronto's Alan Jackson reported Monday that the asteroid — the first confirmed object in our solar system originating elsewhere — is probably from a binary star system. That's where two stars orbit a common center. According to Jackson and his team, the asteroid was likely ejected from its system as planets formed. "It has been wandering interstellar space for a long time since," the scientists wrote in the Royal Astronomical Society's journal, Monthly Notices.

Discovered in October by a telescope in Hawaii millions of miles away, the asteroid is called Oumuamua, Hawaiian for messenger from afar arriving first, or scout. The red-tinged rock is estimated to be possibly 1,300 feet (400 meters) long and zooming away from the Earth and sun at more than 16 miles (26 kilometers) per second.

An artist's illustration of the asteroid 'Oumuamua, the first interstellar object ever known to visit our solar system.​

Last month, a science team led by Wesley Fraser of Queen's University Belfast reported that Oumuamua is actually tumbling through space, likely the result of a collision with another asteroid or other object that kicked it out of its home solar system. He expects it to continue tumbling for billions of more years.

Scientists originally thought it might be an icy comet, but now agree it is an asteroid. "The same way we use comets to better understand planet formation in our own solar system, maybe this curious object can tell us more about how planets form in other systems," Jackson said in a statement. Close binary star systems may be the source of the majority of interstellar objects out there, both icy comets and rocky asteroids, according to the researchers.

Our First Interstellar Visitor Likely Came From Two-star System

 

[Lewdog]

I thought Oumuamua was the fifth type of taste?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

It's not like this is the first cigar shaped visitor to the solar system.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

NASA Rover Mars Cigar shaped UFO

Cigar Shaped UFO as seen from ISS, just before NASA cuts the feed

 

[LuckyDuck]

Oumuamua, is the name given to a recent visitor to our solar system. It's in the classic cigar shaped UFO, was totally solid, orbited on an axis ever 7 hours, and slingshotted itself around the Sun and headed back out of the Solar system. Supposedly it's just an "asteroid" that came from out side of the solar system, yet, as if by magic, put itself on an orbit to slingshot around the Sun.

Yeah, random.

Nothing to see here.

My God, I've stumbled upon a series of posts by people who have forgotten to take their medications, or, who need to get off what they might be on.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Oumuamua, is the name given to a recent visitor to our solar system. It's in the classic cigar shaped UFO, was totally solid, orbited on an axis ever 7 hours, and slingshotted itself around the Sun and headed back out of the Solar system. Supposedly it's just an "asteroid" that came from out side of the solar system, yet, as if by magic, put itself on an orbit to slingshot around the Sun.

Yeah, random.

Nothing to see here.

My God, I've stumbled upon a series of posts by people who have forgotten to take their medications, or, who need to get off what they might be on.

Cigar shaped UFO as seen by the ISS...look familiar?

 

[LuckyDuck]

Oumuamua, is the name given to a recent visitor to our solar system. It's in the classic cigar shaped UFO, was totally solid, orbited on an axis ever 7 hours, and slingshotted itself around the Sun and headed back out of the Solar system. Supposedly it's just an "asteroid" that came from out side of the solar system, yet, as if by magic, put itself on an orbit to slingshot around the Sun.

Yeah, random.

Nothing to see here.

My God, I've stumbled upon a series of posts by people who have forgotten to take their medications, or, who need to get off what they might be on.

Cigar shaped UFO as seen by the ISS...look familiar?

A rocket booster.
The term UFO only applies to something seen that couldn't be "identified," hence, Unidentified Flying Object. It doesn't mean, Alien Flying Object.
We live in a vast cosmos and even if some society from another world wanted to fly across the universe, that pesky speed-of-light factor prevents it.
The only way that the idea of faster-than-light travel was claimed would work, is via the so-called Alcubierre Drive, but that is ruled out as it would take the power of the entire universe for it to work, or a negative-energy exotic matter which we see no evidence of.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Oumuamua, is the name given to a recent visitor to our solar system. It's in the classic cigar shaped UFO, was totally solid, orbited on an axis ever 7 hours, and slingshotted itself around the Sun and headed back out of the Solar system. Supposedly it's just an "asteroid" that came from out side of the solar system, yet, as if by magic, put itself on an orbit to slingshot around the Sun.

Yeah, random.

Nothing to see here.

My God, I've stumbled upon a series of posts by people who have forgotten to take their medications, or, who need to get off what they might be on.

Cigar shaped UFO as seen by the ISS...look familiar?

A rocket booster.
The term UFO only applies to something seen that couldn't be "identified," hence, Unidentified Flying Object. It doesn't mean, Alien Flying Object.
We live in a vast cosmos and even if some society from another world wanted to fly across the universe, that pesky speed-of-light factor prevents it.
The only way that the idea of faster-than-light travel was claimed would work, is via the so-called Alcubierre Drive, but that is ruled out as it would take the power of the entire universe for it to work, or a negative-energy exotic matter which we see no evidence of.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

It's not like this is the first cigar shaped visitor to the solar system.

Cheroot up the Chute

Nor the first one in a Lewinsky.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Oumuamua, is the name given to a recent visitor to our solar system. It's in the classic cigar shaped UFO, was totally solid, orbited on an axis ever 7 hours, and slingshotted itself around the Sun and headed back out of the Solar system. Supposedly it's just an "asteroid" that came from out side of the solar system, yet, as if by magic, put itself on an orbit to slingshot around the Sun.

Yeah, random.

Nothing to see here.

My God, I've stumbled upon a series of posts by people who have forgotten to take their medications, or, who need to get off what they might be on.

Cigar shaped UFO as seen by the ISS...look familiar?

A rocket booster.
The term UFO only applies to something seen that couldn't be "identified," hence, Unidentified Flying Object. It doesn't mean, Alien Flying Object.
We live in a vast cosmos and even if some society from another world wanted to fly across the universe, that pesky speed-of-light factor prevents it.
The only way that the idea of faster-than-light travel was claimed would work, is via the so-called Alcubierre Drive, but that is ruled out as it would take the power of the entire universe for it to work, or a negative-energy exotic matter which we see no evidence of.

Where the Quantum Leap Takes Place

The maximum speed in the universe that birthed ours is the square of the speed of light, approximately a light-year in three minutes.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

 

[Old Rocks]

UFO, Unidentified Flying Object. And that is what they remain.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

UFO, Unidentified Flying Object. And that is what they remain.

Because the government said so

 

[Wyatt earp]

I knew those aliens tried to Target us







Scientists say mysterious 'Oumuamua' object could be an alien spacecraft


Scientists say mysterious 'Oumuamua' object could be an alien spacecraft
Harvard researchers raise the possibility that it may be "a fully operational probe sent intentionally to Earth vicinity by an alien civilization."


Nov. 5, 2018 / 2:06 PM ET
By David Freeman

Maybe it's an alien spacecraft.

Scientists have been puzzling over Oumuamua ever since the mysterious space object was observed tumbling past the sun in late 2017. Given its high speed and its unusual trajectory, the reddish, stadium-sized whatever-it-is had clearly come from outside our solar system. But its flattened, elongated shape and the way it accelerated on its way through the solar system set it apart from conventional asteroids and comets.
Now a pair of Harvard researchers are raising the possibility that Oumuamua is an alien spacecraft. As they say in a paper to be published Nov. 12 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the object "may be a fully operational probe sent intentionally to Earth vicinity by an alien civilization."

.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Right! And it could, in theory, unfold itself into a bright and beautiful unicorn populated by elves with candy. Or it could be a rock.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

It sped up, then later it changed direction. It's not a natural object at all.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

It sped up, then later it changed direction. It's not a natural object at all.

You keep saying that. Sped up... when? Changed direction ... how? Saying it did these things is true, because that's what it did, when it slingshot around the sun: It changed direction and sped up. What you are saying isn't remarkable or unexpected..

 

[CrusaderFrank]

It sped up, then later it changed direction. It's not a natural object at all.

You keep saying that. Sped up... when? Changed direction ... how? Saying it did these things is true, because that's what it did, when it slingshot around the sun: It changed direction and sped up. What you are saying isn't remarkable or unexpected..

I'm not doing any work for you. Its readily available on line.