>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.
Leo Ward
Google it. I'm on my phone.
Oliver Cooper
so it's a big black space rock, what's so spooky dookie about it? Get back to us if it's shown to exhibit anomalous infrared emissions which could indicate so sort of internal power source
Dylan Brooks
the albedo number will be what's important this guy's an astronomer and said it could be ayys
>With Spitzer observations, we can not only get the size, but that lets us work out the albedo! So this thing could come back and it's 400m long with an albedo of 0.04 (dark weird rock). Or it could be 50m long with an albedo of 0.85 (this thing is painted titanium white, everybody lose their minds!!!).
>Oumumua Dude, that was like 2 weeks ago. You are bit late to the party, slowpoke!
Landon Sanchez
>tfw we got BLACKED
Dominic Carter
It's just swamp gas. Moderators and/or administrators. Please delete this post.
Joshua Wood
>180 m x 30 m x 30 m. Odd dimensions! Had they been 180 mm x 30 mm x 30 mm, I could have identified it as a cosmic turd!
Joseph Miller
still just looks like a rock, dude. it had to happen eventually that one would pop through our solar system i really do hope it's something more but don't get your hopes up dude
Yup, it did a solar slingshot straight out of fucking science fiction. Obviously could be a coincidence, but it specifically passed bear Earth on its exit path. Sure, that could be selection effect due to our location, but holy fuck did it pass close by. You see a picture of the trajectory on Wikipedia.
Liam Reed
>pic wrong link. the pic is of this video from nasa but the first link is a great 3d understanding of the orbit. it looks intentional. youtube.com/watch?v=fbL1ZoAQgUU
Analysis has been trickling in slowly. I was aware of first reports but didn't think much of them until the past couple of days. We should know a lot more soon.
Cooper Cook
>No reason not to bombard the object with communications on every known frequency while it is fairly close to us. Given the energy curve needed to exit the solar system they could not reasonably be expected to slow down, but a response is not beyond the realm of possibility. If it were unmanned or the crew in stasis, at least our message would probably be recorded. t. some tard commenting on a blog post
>tfw SETI project mouthbreathers will actually do this and give away our existence
Nathaniel Diaz
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Carter Taylor
ayy lmao
David Martinez
>Oumumua google this shit and all you'll find are a bunch of crackpot theory websites >b-b-but its trustworthy! why? >b-because its not mass media!
James Rivera
>Earth is about to penetrated by an interstellar BBC
Ryder Bailey
may god droped a mondo duke for all of us to find and its finally came
I agree that sending signals is dangerous and premature, but if on the off chance this thing really is you-know-what, then its trajectory suggests the game is already up.
Brody Wood
Crap! linked my own post. It is probaly just some metal rich asteroid which happend to be flung out of its star system. Exciting, but defenitely not ayylmaos.
Chase Campbell
>tfw our planet gets BLACKED we can't catch a break
Christopher Mitchell
no mentions of outgassing no mentions of a weird rotating period (whatever the fuck that is)
did I mention no mentions of outgassing?
Kevin Williams
um.... guys....
Samuel Moore
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Joseph Jackson
That's still the most likely possibility, sure. Again, we still don't know much about interstellar objects, so we dont have many points of comparison. But for one object to be extreme in so many unrelated ways is highly intriguing, and shifts our understanding of interstellar objects at the very least. (I think the Rare Earth hypothesis is likely to be true, so I'm as skeptical as anyone.)
Sebastian Phillips
> A/2017 U1 has had no such close encounters, Holman added. Outgassing could theoretically also push a comet onto a hyperbolic path, but that doesn't seem to be the case with A/2017 U1, either, he said.
>The VLT’s FORS instrument was able to make very precise spectroscopic measurements of 'Oumuamua's brightness and color. By combining the VLT observations with those made by other telescopes, astronomers found that 'Oumuamua's brightness varies by a factor of 10 as it spins on its axis every 7.3 hours.
If you can't blame it on Jews it doesn't belong on Sup Forums
Kevin Roberts
>space.com yeah ok im leaving this thread
Eli Turner
See
Jonathan Scott
was this an attempt by ayy's to get rid of us?
Liam Phillips
holy shit it goes right past Earth
Thomas Thomas
jesus christ
Oliver Green
Maybe, but no need to make sure. There's always a chance this thing is just doing some routine survey and missed us.
Eli Roberts
>Space.com is a space and astronomy news website. Its stories are often syndicated to other media outlets, including CNN, MSNBC, Yahoo!, and USA Today. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space.com
major mainstream news outlets source it anyone with an interest in space knows the site
It is very possible, that this is the stripped down core of some comet that got burned to a crisp by getting too close to its origin star and subsequentienty flung out. The light curve could be explained not by elongation but by irregular refelctive patches on its surface, like salt deposits for example. We have seen those on Ceres.
Julian Carter
If it has radio equipment it's already heard us.
Isaiah Peterson
reminds of the beginning of The Day the Earth stood still, when they detect a fats interstellar object and find that its trajectory isn't influenced by gravitational fields
Caleb Butler
>is very, um, suspicious > is, shall we say, intense at the moment
Why don't you fucking elaborate as the OP of this thread instead of sitting on a fence and waiting for Sup Forums's opinion for you to parrot as the OP of next thread?
Jonathan Brooks
well, if it were recce, it wasn't very good, since we saw it. And that would imply they didn't know where we are, but they sure buzzed past earth, so they guessed pretty good.
How fast was it going? 30-40km/s?
Michael Jackson
Why did they give it an oogabooga name?
Lincoln Ramirez
You can blame it on Jews In Space, d’uh.
Ryder Baker
Most of the info has filtered down to journos yet because the most interesting analysis is literally hours old. Expect to see articles within the next 24 hours or so.
Austin Jenkins
reminder that mainstream media refuses to cover this because space niggers dont want you to know also same reason these threads get moved from Sup Forums to x or bant
Zachary Powell
It reminds me of rendezvous with rama
except rama just passed us by because we don't have any spacecraft to do intercepts with
Luke Thomas
fast*
Eli Gonzalez
>Now this is the first interstellar object of any kind to visit our solar system, what presumption. that modern man knows of.
Isaiah White
It looks like something from the Alien movies. Facehuggers when?
Christian Thompson
Its tumbling and it emits no heat.
At the best case scenario is a destroyed spaceship. Otherwise the aliyums have really weird ways of travelling.
Kayden Rogers
no, that was something that entered the atmosphere, we don't really know what that was. probably some secret military shit but thats a guess
Jordan Baker
>Giant black dildo enters the solar system >Implying this is not the spaceship the kangz created after they built the pyramids
Jacob Smith
so if this thing hit earth what would happen.
Henry Gutierrez
>literally the universe >OH FUCK GUYS A ROCK SHAPED LIKE JESUS
Nathaniel Kelly
You are a fucking idiot, there's nothing mysterious about an asteroid in interstellar space. Fucking LARPers.
>>/x/
Gavin Diaz
it's just south slavs from alpha centaurii visiting, nothing to be afraid off. For us.
Jeremiah Myers
It's not an asteroid, it's an Aldebaran ship. The National Socialist New Swabia division developed similar cigar shaped craft based on their communication with them towards the end of the war.
I believe they are patiently waiting until pro white sentiment and racialism returns to Europe and NA before announcing themselves. Notice the jews have been working overtime to destroy white people, often in a counter productive manner, like they are operating on a time constraint. Also they are starting to develop their project bluebeam myths about how National Socialist "Luciferians" somehow run the American govt through project paperclip when scientists got moved to the USA from Germany.
Austin Campbell
>>>if it is not in the (((media))) it must be false goy
Nicholas Morgan
that could have been a smaller ship released from the larger ship though
Henry Peterson
Granted, this could be a selection effect (we are more likely go see the stuff that passes Earth than the stuff that doesn't), but the slingshot trajectory is what's most compelling; it's an almost comically generic sci-fi maneuver if it turns out to be, well, you know.... I dont think anyone knows what to make of it yet.
Carson Powell
ROCKED.com
Someone edit Ouaouamuemuehuehuehue into that Elsa Jean thing.
Grayson Peterson
looks like a giant space joint desu
Lincoln Young
Very interesting possibility, and one that would make me rest easier if it were shown to be the case.
William Martin
sure is traveling fast...
Wyatt Bennett
pleasehituspleasehituspleasehitus
David Hughes
Would ayy if you lmao what I mean.
Aaron Reyes
Or it's an unmanned probe doing a flyby
Jackson Russell
TFW
Jackson Lopez
>on Sup Forums >trusts the media what the fuck leaf
James Ortiz
Th absolute worst time to get probed by aliens is when all our astrophysicists are nu-male soyboys
Jose Green
Wtf was that dip for? Motherfucker is nuts.
Landon Perez
Well, yeah. That goes without saying.
Robert Morris
Okay, I found the info from nasa, it's going 87.4km/s
I hope they start tracking its trajectory, I want to know where it came from
Jace Baker
or the best time if the ETs are on our side
James Myers
Ayy
John Cooper
It has returned
Eli Fisher
anythings possible, we are really guessing with this shit
Thomas Scott
>85,700 mph (137,900 km/h) relative to the sun, NASA officials said.
Carson Powell
We detected it because it passed near us. Every object performs a "slignshot" maneuver if it has sufficient velocity around a gravitational body. Nearly circular orbits are only present in our solar system because the bodies coalesced out of spinning proto planetary disc. Any smaller bodies that didn't make the cut just fell into the sun or were thrown out. Highly erratic orbits indicate it's front outside the system or is falling in from the oort cloud.
Tyler Jackson
>inb4 its a damaged robot ship from some fleet battle >inb4 it lands on earth and starts to repair itself using surrounding resources it gathers so it can send a transmission to its HQ so the robots invade us >inb4 it's the Strogg using slip gate technology to send out scout drones not just in between space but dimensions/reality itself I hope you're ready to frag some squibs because we're on the menu
>slingshot trajectory what are you talking about, of course it followed a slingshot around the Sun, thats how orbits work. It would be far more interesting if it didn't, then we could really get excited
