Interstellar Interlopers, Coming in from the great beyond |
Interstellar Interlopers, Coming in from the great beyond |
Oct 27 2017, 01:40 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 540 Joined: 17-November 05 From: Oklahoma Member No.: 557 |
They finally found a chunk of something coming into the Solar System. Something much bigger than cosmic rays or dust particles.
Asteroid/comet in hyperbolic trajectory |
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Nov 20 2017, 11:11 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 68 Joined: 27-March 15 Member No.: 7426 |
The differences in reflectivity, through the course of its rotation, are held to imply that the object is at least 10 times longer than it is wide. If the two ends don't align directly with Earth, which would be quite a coincidence, the elongation would be even greater, we're told. The 'fat cigar' has become quite a thin one! Not a contact binary, it seems. The object is reported to be spinning too rapidly for this to be a stable configuration. The article, linked below, has some even less probable explanations for the object.
BBC Article |
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