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Previously posted articles about Oumuamua:

Leading Astronomers: Oumuamua Is ‘Alien Probe With Broken Engines,’ Could Have Hostile Intentions

Alien Probe or Galactic Driftwood? SETI Tunes In to 'Oumuamua [pronounced 'Yo Mama']

Meet 'Oumuamua! The 1st Interstellar Visitor Ever Seen Gets a Name

1 posted on 12/20/2017 6:44:37 AM PST by blam
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Must prepare by watching 1950s Si-Fi- movies!


2 posted on 12/20/2017 6:47:07 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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4 posted on 12/20/2017 6:48:48 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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6 posted on 12/20/2017 6:52:40 AM PST by bar sin·is·ter (Climate Scientology - another example of science fiction morphing into a religious cult)
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Second, the lack of a comet-like tail of vaporized ice — despite passing even within Mercury’s orbit — seems to be the result of unknown organic matter which shields its internal ice from the sun’s immense heat.

Is there any reason the object must have an internal ice core? Couldn't the object be composed solely of various types of rock?

I see from an internet search that the object is classified as an asteroid, not a comet. So it very well might have no ice.

7 posted on 12/20/2017 6:52:45 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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8 posted on 12/20/2017 6:53:12 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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Sounds like the name of a Pink Floyd album!


10 posted on 12/20/2017 6:54:40 AM PST by gr8eman (Facts and evidence are bourgeois constructs weaponized by patriarchal penis-people)
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“Organic shell”? Could it be a sea shell from space? Dr. Doolittle was in search of a giant pink sea snail, IIRC.


11 posted on 12/20/2017 6:54:45 AM PST by BipolarBob (At one time I held the world record as the worlds youngest person on the planet.)
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“Oumuamua” my be how it would sound if you tried to say Obama’s name while drunk.


14 posted on 12/20/2017 6:56:40 AM PST by howlinhound (Live your life so that, when you get up in the morning, Satan says, "Oh Crap!..He's awake" - Unknown)
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Jim... It's organic.


21 posted on 12/20/2017 7:06:45 AM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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Well at least we still have some humpback whales in the ocean...


29 posted on 12/20/2017 7:13:52 AM PST by COBOL2Java (John McCain treats GOP voters like he treated his first wife)
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Berzerker on a recon mission.


30 posted on 12/20/2017 7:15:12 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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Aliens! </Arnold J. Rimmer>


32 posted on 12/20/2017 7:25:40 AM PST by null and void (The internet gave everyone a mouth. It gave no one a brain.)
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“result of unknown organic matter which shields its internal ice from the sun’s immense heat”

How do they know its insides are made of ice?


34 posted on 12/20/2017 7:26:54 AM PST by Colo9250 (Obama's scout ship just passed by)
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Waiting now for the cat & pickle gifs.


35 posted on 12/20/2017 7:27:53 AM PST by Buttons12
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Where the heck has the author of this article been for the last several months?

Oumuamua was already classified as being comprised of metallic or rocky materials. The reddish coating has already been explained as being the result of cosmic ray bombardment over millions of years, and the presence of an “organic coating” means it has methane dust and other simple products of organic chemistry on it.


36 posted on 12/20/2017 7:50:11 AM PST by Little Pig
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Everybody got their Slim Whitman cds handy...?


38 posted on 12/20/2017 7:50:49 AM PST by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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Nearly everything in our solar system is covered in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.


41 posted on 12/20/2017 7:54:49 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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Waiting to see something from a verified science site.


46 posted on 12/20/2017 8:02:05 AM PST by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegals, abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF.)
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could have been ejected from a black hole,


48 posted on 12/20/2017 8:05:49 AM PST by tm61 (Election 2012: we find it IS possible, to polish a turd.)
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"‘Oumuamua’ Has Organic Shell"

It pronounced "Moya". Ive seen this episode, nothing big happens.

51 posted on 12/20/2017 8:25:24 AM PST by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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