Posted on 09/29/2018 12:56:41 PM PDT by ETL
Scientists have uncovered the truth about a mysterious space rock called Oumuamua which has been hurtling through Earth’s solar system and was spotted last year.
A group of acclaimed astronomers, including members from NASA, the European Space Agency and the German Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, released a report this week on the origins of the cigar-shaped asteroid which was first observed in October 2017.
The name Oumuamua is Hawaiian for “messenger from afar arriving first” and was named by the site who first spotted it.
According to the report, “a fast moving object on an unbound orbit was discovered close to the Earth” by a high-powered telescope, located in Hawaii.
The report claims Oumuamua is a metallic or rocky object, approximately 400 metres in length and about 40 metres wide.
It has a “comet-like density” and a dark red surface.
“(The red surface suggests) either an organic-rich surface like that of comets and outer solar system asteroids, or a surface containing minerals with nanoscale iron, such as the dark side of Saturn’s moon Iapetus,” the report said.
The report suggested Oumuamua left its home millions of years ago and was likely sent on its lonely journey when it was “ejected during planet formation and migration” and has been linked to four possible star systems.
It was also calculated that Oumuamua moved faster than the existing laws of celestial mechanics.
The report has been accepted into The Astrophysical Journal.
The discovery of Oumuamua sparked international debate when it was first discovered, as scientists struggled to explain what exactly the long, thin asteroid was and why it was flying so close to Earth.
The discovery even prompted suggestions that the rock was actually an alien spaceship or probe, used to explore our solar system.
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Is that you Cartman?
Holy crap hillarious cat-turd gif!
We are living a sci-fi movie!
Truth stranger than fiction...
In a NASA town hall yesterday (May 17), NASA's new administrator, Jim Bridenstine, said that he knows Earth's climate is changing, and that humans contribute to it "in a major way," also supporting NASA's research into that important area. The statement is significant because Bridenstine has expressed doubt about human-caused climate change in the past, causing some to question his suitability to lead a fact-focused NASA.
In 2013, as an Oklahoma congressman, Bridenstine claimed there was no current trend toward global warming. More recently, such as in his NASA administrator confirmation hearings last November, he has acknowledged that human activity contributes to climate change. But he had stopped short of saying that humans are the phenomenon's primary cause.
At the NASA employee town hall, Bridenstine described how his thinking had "evolved" on the topic and laid out his current beliefs.
"I don't deny the consensus that the climate is changing; in fact, I fully believe and know that the climate is changing," he said. "I also know that we, human beings, are contributing to it in a major way. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. We're putting it into the atmosphere in volumes that we haven't seen, and that greenhouse gas is warming the planet.
"That is absolutely happening, and we are responsible for it," he added. "NASA is the one agency on the face of the planet that has the most credibility to do the science necessary so that we can understand it better than ever before."
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That object in space is too large to be from a cat. My hunch is that there are in fact aliens out there, really big ones!
It was renewed
Googling baby ruth spaceship results at the 8th row the pic at the top of your reply.
When I run out of decent things to watch on TV, which isn’t hard to do, I’ll watch Ancient Aliens for a laugh. A lot of their theories aren’t as wacked out as what often passes for “mainstream science” these days.
I submit GlowbullWarming/ClimateChange as exhibit #1. :)
Back shortly after the object was reported, a second similar in shape object was photographed but on a different course and at a grater distance - as I recall.
I saw this this season on CBS’s summer series Salvation about an asteroid on a collision course with Earth.
In the final episode, this Season 2 ended with the asteriod mysteriously changing course and going behind the moon. Then a sudden burst of light.
We have to wait until next summer (assuming the series is renewed) to find out whether aliens were driving the asteroid.
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Perhaps the Nazi colony on the far side of the moon blew it up. ;-)
That object in space is too large to be from a cat. My hunch is that there are in fact aliens out there, really big ones!
But... Is it too large to be from Michael Moore?
Well?
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Its time to shut down NASA for their unscientific utterances!
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>> “This is the single least-scientific and most crap-filled report of ‘Science’ I have ever seen.” <<
AMEN!
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Can you imagine how much Preparation H that dude must have needed!
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