Interstellar visitor enters our Solar System

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Our solar system’s first known interstellar visitor is neither a comet nor asteroid as first suspected and looks nothing like a cigar. A new study says the mystery object is likely a remnant of a Pluto-like world and shaped like a cookie.

Arizona State University astronomers reported this week that the strange 148-foot (45-meter) object that appears to be made of frozen nitrogen, just like the surface of Pluto and Neptune’s largest moon Triton.

The study’s authors, Alan Jackson and Steven Desch, think an impact knocked a chunk off an icy nitrogen-covered planet 500 million years ago and sent the piece tumbling out of its own star system, toward ours. The reddish remnant is believed to be a sliver of its original self, its outer layers evaporated by cosmic radiation and, more recently, the sun.

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“Everybody is interested in aliens, and it was inevitable that this first object outside the solar system would make people think of aliens,” Desch said in a statement. “But it’s important in science not to jump to conclusions.”

Using its shininess, size and shape — and that it was propelled by escaping substances that didn’t produce a visible tail — Jackson and Desch devised computer models that helped them determine Oumuamua was most likely a chunk of nitrogen ice being gradually eroded, the way a bar of soap thins with use.

Their two papers were published Tuesday by the American Geophysical Union and also presented at the Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference, typically held in Houston but virtual this year.

Not all scientists buy the new explanation. Harvard University’s Avi Loeb disputes the findings and stands by his premise that the object appears to be more artificial than natural — in other words, something from an alien civilization, perhaps a light sail. His newly published book “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth,” addresses the subject.

https://apnews.com/article/interstellar-object-pluto-e675cbef8dfa519857dbb797d87af6f5?utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

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Oh sh*t  it's a piece of Chromatica

#TakeMeToYourPlanet #TakeMeToWonderland

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Inb4 it impacts and absolutely demolishes us 

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that rock has seen some things

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What? That illustration looks like a burger patty??

[PartySick 172,484]

I wish we could take a detailed sample of it to see if it has the building blocks of life like a lot of our local space rocks do

Imagine having alien amino acids and carbon bonds visiting us  panspermia confirmed

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Gaga sending burgers from Chromatica to her fans waiting in line for COVID vaccines. 

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Like this article says, this is just some kind of speculation. This is still open to questions and speculations, literally.

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Chromatica Oreo...Gaga is ahead of her time 

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11 minutes ago, PartySick said:

I wish we could take a detailed sample of it to see if it has the building blocks of life like a lot of our local space rocks do

Imagine having alien amino acids and carbon bonds visiting us  panspermia confirmed

 

It's the end of the world as we know it.  And I feel fine.

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Who would have thought that a giant Chromatica cookie will hit the earth and caused its extinction??  

 

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I have a bad feeling everyone ..

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8 minutes ago, Ronk said:

It's the end of the world as we know it.  And I feel fine.

Naaah  we've found the essential building blocks of life all over the universe but I'm curious as to the prevalence of the more complicated molecules used by life as we know it.

 

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5 minutes ago, PartySick said:

Naaah  we've found the essential building blocks of life all over the universe but I'm curious as to the prevalence of the more complicated molecules used by life as we know it.

 

But what if it has the more complicated molecules that develop into creatures bent on our destruction?  Don't mind me.  Just trying to spread fear and anxiety.  I'm runnin'.  I wonder if Elon can fly me to Chromatica.

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