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NASA solves mystery of cigar-shaped UFO, believed to carry alien life
FoxNews.com/Science ^ | Sept 27, 2018 | Rhian Deutrom | news.com.au

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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TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: amirsiraj; asteroid; astronomy; aviloeb; c2017u1; comet; comets; harvard; jasonwright; nasa; oumuamua; science; shmuelbialy; xplanets; yurimilner
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To: ETL

Yeah, dummies hitched a ride on the wrong comet.


41 posted on 09/29/2018 2:11:14 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: LouieFisk


"Take us to Rush Limbaugh.   We have his
delivery of a box of intergalactic stogies."

42 posted on 09/29/2018 2:11:17 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: ETL
Not sure who you posted but the first person that it remnded me of is Lee Gunny Ermy

. It's not him though, I'm sure, but who is it?

43 posted on 09/29/2018 2:14:21 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: ETL

The lack of substance in this “report”, suggests that NASA is hiding something.

NASA must be in collusion with the aliens in that spaceship disguised as a cigar-shaped rock.

The truth is out there.


44 posted on 09/29/2018 2:15:53 PM PDT by adorno
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To: Songcraft

Ramon Allones Gigante!


45 posted on 09/29/2018 2:21:39 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: LouieFisk

Wait a second -- are they the alien ones from 90 miles away, or 90 light-years away?

46 posted on 09/29/2018 2:31:52 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: ETL

47 posted on 09/29/2018 2:37:40 PM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: Blue Highway

Marshall Applewhite leader of the Heavens Gate cult.


48 posted on 09/29/2018 2:41:16 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Songcraft

You don’t ask when they’re big enough to crush a planet!!
:D


49 posted on 09/29/2018 2:41:45 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

It’s cigar shaped, not doobie shaped.


50 posted on 09/29/2018 2:44:48 PM PDT by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: ETL

https://youtu.be/4thNIrzqUXs


51 posted on 09/29/2018 2:46:09 PM PDT by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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To: aomagrat

“It’s cigar shaped, not doobie shaped.”

Well then, does it answer to the name Gomtuu?


52 posted on 09/29/2018 2:48:13 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: ETL
Wait! Don't tell me. Let me guess!

It was a weather balloon!

Right?
53 posted on 09/29/2018 2:50:52 PM PDT by Savage Beast (A fool is more dangerous than a scoundrel. Fools are the tools of the scoundrels.)
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To: LouieFisk

Oh, okay.       :-)

54 posted on 09/29/2018 2:53:38 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: Lazamataz

“This is the single least-scientific and most crap-filled report of “Science” I have ever seen.”

Still I think I’ll celebrate this finding by kicking back and firing up one of my UFO-shaped cigars.


55 posted on 09/29/2018 2:58:51 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: Autonomous User

It’s his world, and welcome to it!

:)


56 posted on 09/29/2018 3:00:37 PM PDT by W. (Boom!)
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To: ETL

UFO means unidentified. If you know what it is, it’s not Unidentified.

Speculation does not solve mysteries.


57 posted on 09/29/2018 3:09:36 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Cynicism is the only refuge in a world that is determined to eliminate itself.)
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To: MarchonDC09122009; ETL
Zoomed in to see what Fluffy was batting at.....


58 posted on 09/29/2018 3:10:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: ETL

A papa-oom-mow-mow
A papa-oom-mow-mow
A papa-oom-mow-mow
A papa-oom-mow-mow
Funniest sound i ever heard
(a papa-oom-mow-mow a papa-oom-mow-mow)
But i can’t understand a single word
(a papa-oom-mow-mow a papa-oom-mow-mow)
Well if he’s serious or if he’s playin’
Woo my my it’s all he’s sayin
Papa-papa-hoooo
(a papa-oom-mow-mow a papa-oom-mow-mow)
Papa-papa-papa-hoooo
(a papa-oom-mow-mow a papa-oom-mow-mow)
Doot doot doot
(a papa-oom-mow-mow a papa-oom-mow-mow)
Doot doot doot
(a papa-oom-mow-mow a papa-oom-mow-mow)
Well say there pop, say what’s your name?
(a papa-oom-mow-mow a papa-oom-mow-mow)
Well don’t you come around and show your face
(a papa-oom-mow-mow a papa-oom-mow-mow)
But hearing the sound i can’t figure it out
Oo-wee this…
Songwriters: Al Frazi


59 posted on 09/29/2018 3:15:05 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I once found a needle in a haystack but it wasn't the one I was looking for...)
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To: ETL

It doesn’t make sense that something of this size (1300 feet in length) made of solid rock or metal could be pre-planetary debris, as NASA theorizes.

It takes a lot of gravity and pressure over a long period to form solid rock with the integrity to hold its form indefinitely. If it’s solid metal, it has to come from the deep interior or core of a rocky planet, assuming it’s not manufactured. Solid rock and metal can’t form from pre-planetary debris coalescing into relatively small lumps. We call those lumps comets, and they are dustballs with some ice mixed in. The force of gravity has to operate at a planetary scale to forge something like this.

Bottom line, it’s either debris from a disintegrated (exploded?) rocky planet, or it’s artificial. IMHO


60 posted on 09/29/2018 3:31:02 PM PDT by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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