Courtesy of “NASA.gov”:
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“New data reveal the interstellar interloper to be a rocky, cigar-shaped object with a somewhat reddish hue. The asteroid, named Oumuamua by its discoverers, is up to one-quarter mile (400 meters) long and highly-elongated—perhaps 10 times as long as it is wide. That aspect ratio is greater than that of any asteroid or comet observed in our solar system to date. Its elongated shape is quite surprising, and unlike asteroids seen in our solar system…
The observations and analyses were funded in part by NASA and appear in the Nov. 20 issue of the journal Nature. They suggest this unusual object had been wandering through the Milky Way, unattached to any star system, for hundreds of millions of years…”
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After seeing the picture below, my first thought was of course about the possibility of life on other planets. Who knew “ET” was so well-endowed?
11-24-2017
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