>11/'Oumumua is the first known interstellar object to pass through the Solar System. It was discovered on a highly eccentric hyperbolic trajectory by Robert Weryk on 19 October 2017, 40 days after it passed its closest point to the sun.
Here's where you can start clenching your asshole.
Recent analysis of the "asteroid" has turned up the following.
>The object is highly elongated with an axial ratio of 4.1 to 6.9, comparable to the most elongated Solar System objects...[it] has dimensions of approximately 180 m x 30 m x 30 m. >the object is small and dark, with an unprecedentedly bizarre max-to-min light radio >rotation period is extremely unusual >no outgassing >our sun is probably the second star is ever met >did I mention no outgassing?
For an object to be this extreme is so many unrelated ways is very, um, suspicious.
More data to come out soon, but the general chatter among astrophysicists is, shall we say, intense at the moment.
it's just a cosmic shit that god dropped in his pants because he's american
Lincoln Kelly
Yah, but what's its 1/4 mile time?
Benjamin Cook
is this the one Sup Forums was tracking? then /x/ since threads kept getting moved to /bant/?
Wyatt Lee
tl;dr, an elongated object of dark red metal and irregular surface features just whipped into our solar system from above, brushed within a few light minutes of Earth, and left
Now this is the first interstellar object of any kind to visit our solar system, and we know very little about interstellar objects, so we can't automatically conclude you know what. Still, fucking everyone in the astrophysics community is talking about this while we wait for more info to come in.
David Peterson
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Lucas Hill
fug :DDDDDD aliums :DDDDDDDDD
William Phillips
>no source
Jonathan Cook
If this isn't news I don't know what is.
Blake Howard
Didn't it also do a gravity assist off the sun and the earth? That seems super suspicious to me. Even if it just did a gravity assist off the sun, that's still suspicious. What are the odds some space turd from out in the middle of nowhere just randomly pulls off a perfect slingshot off the sun?
But it's gone now right, already leaving our solar system. Do we know where it's headed? Maybe to another solar system we suspect has life or habitable planets? Maybe it's some sort of probe that is looking for good planets to settle on.... Maybe it's some long dead alien civilizations own version of our Voyager probes... Or maybe it's just a rock.
