This is the single least-scientific and most crap-filled report of “Science” I have ever seen.
You don’t read much about Glowbull Warming I take it.?. :)
Oumuamua is a mildly active comet, and the first interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System. Formally designated 1I/2017 U1, it was discovered by Robert Weryk using the Pan-STARRS telescope at Haleakala Observatory, Hawaii, on 19 October 2017, 40 days after it passed its closest point to the Sun.
When first seen, it was about 33,000,000 km (21,000,000 mi; 0.22 AU) from Earth (about 85 times as far away as the Moon), and already heading away from the Sun.
Oumuamua is a small object, estimated to be about 230 by 35 by 35 meters (800 ft × 100 ft × 100 ft) in size. It has a dark red color, similar to objects in the outer Solar System.
Oumuamua showed no signs of a comet tail despite its close approach to the Sun, but has since undergone non-gravitational acceleration consistent with comet outgassing.
It has significant elongation and rotation rate, so it is thought to be metal-rich with a relatively high density. Oumuamua is tumbling, rather than smoothly rotating, and is moving so fast relative to the Sun that there is no chance it originated in the Solar System.
It also means that Oumuamua cannot be captured into a solar orbit, so it will eventually leave the Solar System and resume traveling through interstellar space. Oumuamua’s system of origin and the amount of time it has spent traveling amongst the stars are unknown.
In September 2018, astronomers described several possible home star systems from which Oumuamua, that was detected passing through the Solar System in October 2017, may have begun its interstellar journey.[15]
However, the object didn’t pass particularly close to any of the objects, making its origin from any one of them improbable.
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>> “This is the single least-scientific and most crap-filled report of ‘Science’ I have ever seen.” <<
AMEN!
“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.
You’re right, though it would be interesting to have obtained some determination of its age. My guess would be that it’s older than the Sun.