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Shark bait! Ooh Ha Ha!
Posted on 06/28/2018 10:33:05 AM PDT by BenLurkin
`Oumuamua, pronounced oh-MOO-ah-MOO-ah – is moving away from the sun faster than expected. The Hubble Space Telescope made the discovery, in cooperation with ground-based telescopes...
The measured gain in ‘Oumuamua’s speed is tiny, these astronomers said. Plus, our sun is still trying to drag `Oumuamua back; that is, the sun’s gravity is still slowing down the object, though not as fast as predicted by celestial mechanics.
Marco Micheli of the European Space Agency led the team that explored several scenarios to explain ‘Oumuamua’s faster-than-predicted speed. The most likely explanation is that `Oumuamua is venting material from its surface due to solar heating – a behavior known as outgassing. The thrust from this ejected material is thought to provide the small but steady push that is sending `Oumuamua hurtling out of the solar system faster than expected – as of June 1, it is traveling about 114,000 kilometers [70,000 miles] per hour.
These scientists explained that, usually, when comets are warmed by the sun they eject dust and gas. This material forms a cloud of material — called a coma — around them, as well as the characteristic comet tail....
'We did not see any dust, coma or tail, which is unusual. We think that ‘Oumuamua may vent unusually large, coarse dust grains.'
`Oumuamua is a highly mysterious object. Astronomers would love to know where it originated and originally performed the new observations to determine its path more precisely, in hopes they could trace the object back to its parent star system. They weren’t able to make that backwards trace, and, in fact, the recently-detected gain in speed make ‘Oumuamua’s movement more complex, and thus finding its home solar system even more unlikely...
"The true nature of this enigmatic interstellar nomad may remain a mystery."
(Excerpt) Read more at earthsky.org ...
Of possible interest
RAMA................................
On a related astronomy note to some political news of the day.
http://www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-asteroid-2018-6
Aoxomoxoa, pronounced "ox-oh-mox-oh-ah".
...we should rendezvous!
I’m thinking it has a bubble drive (Red Thunder)
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Shark bait! Ooh Ha Ha!
Is it cylindrical?.............
Could have an Infinite Improbability Drive
And now it has an invisible propulsion system. Too bad Art Bell isn’t around.
Witchdoctor
Cartoons
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Walla walla, bang bang
Ooo eee ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla bang bang
Ooo eee ,ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla ,bang bang
Ooo eee ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla bang bang
You’ve been keeping love from me
Just like you were a miser
And I’ll admit I wasn’t very smart
So I went out and found myself
A guy that’s so much wiser
And he taught me the way to win your heart.
My friend the witch doctor
He taught me what to say
My friend the witch doctor
He taught me what to do
I know that you’ll be mine
When I say this to you
Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla, bang bang
Ooo eee ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla bang bang
Ooo eee ,ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla ,bang bang
Ooo eee ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla bang bang
Songwriters: Ross Bagdasarian
Witchdoctor lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
That's what she said...
Yes. And unlike Chode, it’s longer than it is wide...
“behavior known as outgassing.”
Comet flatulence! Disgusting.
Relative to what? The earth? The sun? Interstellar space?
Measured against interstellar space, each of us are moving at least 1,300,000 mph, just sitting at our desktops.
Oumuamua, pronounced oh-MOO-ah-MOO-ah
I thought it was Obamamama pronunced oh-Bomb-ah-MA-ma.
Comet
It’ll make your teeth turn green
Comet
It takes like gasoline
Comet
It’ll make you vomit
So get some Comet, and vomit, today
No, it’s a Trumpet. His fault, after all.
It’s parent star system...
So it somehow left it’s parent system and now is
flung out to space aimlessly?
Is it now captured by our sun?
Ain’t got a Home...
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