Oumuamua... Might Be An Alien Light Sail Probe?
Nov 4, 2018 21:00:35 GMT
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Post by MCDemuth on Nov 4, 2018 21:00:35 GMT
Oumuamua: Mysterious interstellar asteroid 'could be giant artificial solar sail sent by aliens looking for life'
3 NOV 2018
The first ever interstellar object in the solar system...
...might be an artificial light sail sent to look for signs of life, it's claimed.
In a study released on Thursday, astronomers at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics published their observations of an interstellar object known as 'Oumuamua'.
According to the scientists, the rock - which is the first observed to enter our star system from another - received an unexpected boost in speed as it passed through the inner solar system last year.
Because the object seems to exhibit qualities associated with both asteroids and comets, the astronomers have speculated its unusual acceleration might be as a result of a 'light sail of artificial origin' being pushed by solar radiation.
The study 'Could Solar Radiation Pressure Explain 'Oumuamua's Peculiar Acceleration?' was conducted by Shmuel Bialy, a postdoctoral researcher at the CfA's Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) and Professor Abraham Loeb, the director of the ITC, the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University.
The object appeared to speed up as it left the solar system - suggesting it had omitted materials from its surface after being heated by the Sun in a way consistent with a comet.
However, because it did not go through a similar process when it was closest to the Sun, Bialy and Loeb have argued it is in fact a light sail - a form of spacecraft that relies on radiation pressure to generate propulsion
www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/oumuamua-mysterious-interstellar-asteroid-could-13528715
Ugh...
MIGHT... is correct...
OK, I WANT to believe, I really do...
But, does this group of Astronomers/Professors, whom haven't bothered to gather any hard data to prove this thing isn't a comet or asteroid, REALLY, really expect me to take their "THEORY" seriously?
"did not go through a similar process when it was closest to the Sun"
That's It?... That isn't enough evidence to even convince for most E.T. believers... and so, I am sure, the skeptics out there are having a good laugh at that.
They need to do a much better job of doing their homework, before they go about publishing their "observations".
