We May Have Had an Interstellar Visitor for Eons and Scientists Are Stumped

Time to break out all of your old Slim Whitman yodeling records.

2 posted on 02/06/2023 8:07:55 AM PST by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)

Idiots who are trying to explain something that they don’t know anything about to get clicks on their internet links.

It is a four-mile-wide “sungrazer” object with a host of weird properties that suggest it may be an interloper from another star system.

4 posted on 02/06/2023 8:13:39 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )

Scientists are stumped about possible alien visitors? Oh, for goodness sake!
All they have to do is pick up a copy of ‘Weekly World News”.

Idiots who are trying to explain something that they don’t know anything about to get clicks on their internet links.

Oumuamua, which was the first unambiguous interstellar object ever seen in the solar system.

Close enough.

8 posted on 02/06/2023 8:17:47 AM PST by DoodleBob ( Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)

10 posted on 02/06/2023 8:25:48 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)

Easy to see that you didn’t learn anything from reading the article.

11 posted on 02/06/2023 8:27:12 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)

Have that.

Wish it was in that good a shape.

12 posted on 02/06/2023 8:28:02 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)

Slim Whitman actually was very talented and I still enjoy his music.

Here is his version of Indian Love Call that was featured in the 1996 movie, Mars Attacks!

https://youtu.be/HBuk1HXcz1k

It is a classic. Sorry for hijacking the thread.

13 posted on 02/06/2023 8:28:39 AM PST by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)

14 posted on 02/06/2023 8:29:16 AM PST by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")

To: BenLurkin; 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; ...

15 posted on 02/06/2023 8:31:30 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)

Donald Machholz, comet hunter and co-inventor of Messier marathon, dies at age 69
Soft-spoken with an encyclopedic knowledge of the solar system’s small bodies, Machholz regularly scoured the heavens for most of his life.
By Jake Parks
Published: Wednesday, August 10, 2022
https://astronomy.com/news/2022/08/donald-machholz-prolific-comet-hunter-dies-at-age-69

16 posted on 02/06/2023 8:34:02 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)

But call them angels or demons or God or Jesus and watch what happens.

17 posted on 02/06/2023 8:41:35 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)

“the object is bizarrely depleted in common materials, like carbon”

See? Carbon taxes work!

19 posted on 02/06/2023 8:57:35 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)

The rest of the Oumuamua keyword, sorted, with editing and two external links:

The Astronomical Journal: Properties of the Bare Nucleus of Comet 96P/Machholz [04/22/2019]
Nature: The natural history of 'Oumuamua [free access]
Secret Government Info Confirms First Known Interstellar Object on Earth, Scientists Say [04/14/2022]
An interstellar object exploded over Earth in 2014, declassified government data reveal [04/11/2022]
Harvard Scientist Suggests That Our Universe Was Created in a Laboratory [10/17/2021]
Alien Visitor | Mystery over origin of Oumuamua 'alien spaceship' that soared past Earth finally solved [06/02/2021]
Extrasolar Object Interceptor Would be Able to Chase Down the Next Oumuamua or Borisov and Actually Return a Sample [05/15/2021]
The Harvard Prof Who Insists We Are Not Alone [03/06/2021]
Searching For Extraterrestrial Life Like 'Sherlock Holmes' [01/22/2021]
Another "Oumuamua" Plot Twist: Leading Explanation For Interstellar Object Is Aliens Again [08/26/2020]
A Cool Idea to Catch Up With an Interstellar Visitor [05/10/2020]
Interstellar Comet Borisov Shines in Incredible New Hubble Photos [12/15/2019]
Interstellar comet will pass close to Earth this weekend [12/07/2019]
How two intruders from interstellar space are upending astronomy [11/21/2019]
Here's the Picture We've Been Waiting for. Hubble's Photo of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov [10/17/2019]
Astronomers find cyanide gas in interstellar object 2I/Borisov [10/08/2019]
First measurements of 'interstellar comet' [C/2019 Q4 (Borisov)] [09/18/2019]
An interstellar comet looks to be heading our way [09/11/2019]
Mysterious interstellar object Oumuamua is not an alien spaceship but scientists are still baffled [07/01/2019]
Meteor that hit Earth came from beyond the solar system [04/21/2019]
'Oumuamua "Sped Up" in the Inner Solar System. This Might Be Why. [03/13/2019]
7 of the Oddest Things about 'Oumuamua Other than Its Name [12/29/2018]
SETI Astronomers Find No Evidence for Artificial Transmitters on Oumuamua [12/09/2018]
Mysterious interstellar object conundrum intensifies as NASA reveals it didn't originally see it [11/18/2018]
Interstellar Comet Oumuamua is Smaller than Previously Thought, Has Highly Reflective Surface [11/16/2018]
Scientists Now Say Interstellar Object May Have Been Alien Probe [11/07/2018]
Scientists push back against Harvard 'alien spacecraft' theory [Oumuamua] [11/07/2018]
Mysterious interstellar object could be 'lightsail' sent from another civilization [11/05/2018]
NASA solves mystery of cigar-shaped UFO, believed to carry alien life [09/29/2018]
Interstellar asteroid update [guess]: It's a comet! [06/28/2018]
A star disturbed the comets of the solar system 70,000 years ago [03/20/2018]
1st Known Interstellar Visitor Gets Weirder: 'Oumuamua Likely Had 2 Stars [03/19/2018]
Interstellar object Oumuamua tumbling chaotically [02/13/2018]
Scientists Reveal Interstellar Object 'Oumuamua' Has Organic Shell [12/20/2017]
Leading Astronomers: Oumuamua Is 'Alien Probe With Broken Engines,' Could Have Hostile Intentions [12/14/2017]
Has an alien probe entered our solar system? Cigar-shaped interstellar 'comet' ... [12/12/2017]
Alien Probe or Galactic Driftwood? SETI Tunes In to 'Oumuamua [pronounced 'Yo Mama'] [12/11/2017]
Project Lyra, a Mission to Chase Down that Interstellar Asteroid [11/24/2017]
Solar System's First Interstellar Visitor Dazzles Scientists [11/23/2017]
ESO Observations Show First Interstellar Asteroid is Like Nothing Seen Before [11/20/2017]
First interstellar asteroid is like nothing seen before [11/20/2017]
Meet 'Oumuamua! The 1st Interstellar Visitor Ever Seen Gets a Name [11/16/2017]
This mystery object may be our first visitor from another solar system [10/27/2017]
Researchers observe the first known interstellar comet [10/26/2017]
Wrong-Way, Daredevil Asteroid Plays 'Chicken' with Jupiter [03/30/2017]
A close call of 0.8 light years [Nibiru?] [02/22/2015]
Star Blasted Through Solar System 70,000 Years Ago [02/18/2015]

20 posted on 02/06/2023 9:03:54 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)

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