Comments on: Interstellar object resembles asteroid https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/interstellar-object-resembles-asteroid/ Fri, 17 Nov 2017 23:55:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/interstellar-object-resembles-asteroid/#comment-1024358 Fri, 17 Nov 2017 23:55:46 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=48812#comment-1024358 This Island Earth
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https://youtu.be/gtggY_tfjWs
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]]> By: hondo https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/interstellar-object-resembles-asteroid/#comment-1024190 Fri, 17 Nov 2017 05:30:21 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=48812#comment-1024190 Not Rama huh?
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]]> By: LocalFluff https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/interstellar-object-resembles-asteroid/#comment-1023942 Thu, 16 Nov 2017 06:18:51 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=48812#comment-1023942 6:1 elongation “but otherwise” a normal object!? It should’ve been a comet. Water, carbon oxide, nitrogen are the most common molecules in the universe and they are volatiles that are vaporized when they get that close to the Sun, for the one and only time. It’s just in recent years that the border between comets and asteroids has been blurred in our Solar system.

Maybe, billions of years ago, this piece of a thing got mangled and boiled off between the binary stars that finally threw it our way with their gravity.

Capturing interstellar objects is exceedingly rare, according to people in the business. But flybys must be much more common. This thing was far from being captured by the Sun.

]]> By: Nick https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/interstellar-object-resembles-asteroid/#comment-1023895 Thu, 16 Nov 2017 01:55:13 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=48812#comment-1023895 They also call this sort of thing a “ranging shot”….

Not saying it’s aliens, but….! ?

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