Interstellar asteroid update [guess]: It’s a comet!

earthsky.org ^ | June 28, 2018 | Deborah Byrd

[Jim W N]

venting material from its surface due to solar heating – a behavior known as outgassing

Gassing? Did you say GASSING??

Well there's here's only one solution of that. Too much freedom for people to screw up the universe with too much gassing. WE NEED MORE GOVERNMENT TO STOP PEOPLE FROM GASSING THE UNIVSERSE! OUR PRIORITY #1 THREATENING PROBLEM!!!

[Robert A Cook PE]

If the singer ever fergits the words to that song, can anybody else tell?

[NohSpinZone]

Is it me or does it look like a giant, flying turd?

[blueunicorn6]

It’s the starship Nancy Pelosi.

[Mr. K]

Red was it you who sent me those books?

[steve86]

Antimatter.

[6ppc]

Berserker...kudos to Frrd Saberhagen. Only reason it didn’t wipe us out was it didn’t detect any intelligent life forms!

[6ppc]

Frrd=Fred

[Texan5]

When we were little kids, that nonsense tune was so hated by my mom and aunt that every time it was on the radio, one of them changed to a country and western station, because we would immediately start singing it-and if we didn’t stop, we were sent outside to sing in the pasture-another such tune, “Purple People Eater” also caused that reaction from mom and aunt...

[rfp1234]

https://youtu.be/4thNIrzqUXs

[Red Badger]

Those and ‘Itsy-bitsy, Teenie-Weenie , Yellow, Polka Dot Bikini’................

[Robert A Cook PE]

We are vacationing with 9 years olds for week.

First 6 lines of “We are the Champions. ...” Over and over and over.

[Red Badger]

B-I-N-G-O

B-I-N-G-O

B-I-N-G-O

And BINGO was his name-o....................

[Texan5]

That is just the kind of thing that drives adults insane-is there a fenced play area nearby-or if there is a park, can you send them to it? Noise abatement of kids screaming repetitive lyrics is a good thing...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin.

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[Texan5]

Ah, yes-I remember screaming “one, two, three, four-tell the people what she wore” along with bro and cousins until we were told to take it outside...

[Red Badger]

Memories............................

[Red Badger]

Not me!............I still got mine!............

[Waverunner]

Have you talked to your therapist about #1 and #2 training as a child? ( \justkidding)

[Justa]

A very significant object indeed.

The reason the asteroid is elongated is the same reason interstellar travel is impossible with current and future kinetic technologies. Inter-stellar dust will severely ablate any object traveling between stars. The greater the speed the greater the erosion. At 70k mph this thing has probably been traveling for billions of years.