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Astronomers Will Scan Mystery Interstellar Object to Make Sure It’s Not a Spaceship - Oumuamua_orbit_at_perihelion-640x461.png
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...-not-spaceship
...."We know that ‘Oumuamua is from another solar system because it has an orbital eccentricity of 1.20, meaning it’s well past the sun’s escape velocity. Nothing that originated in our solar system could have reached such a high speed, so ‘Oumuamua comes from someplace else. It’s currently on its way out of the solar system at 38.3 kilometers per second (23.8 miles per second). We can’t catch up to it, but the Breakthrough Listen project can still take a closer look. "Milner says Breakthrough Listen will begin using the Green Bank Telescope to scan ‘Oumuamua this week. The telescope will observe the asteroid for 10 hours across four radio bands. If it’s emitting any radio frequency energy, Breakthrough Listen should be able to pick it up. This might be our last chance to learn something about ‘Oumuamua before it’s too far away to study. Next year, it will pass the orbit of Jupiter, and by the mid-2020s, it will pass into the Kuiper Belt. "Odds are that Breakthrough Listen will detect nothing from the object. After all, it’s probably been falling through interstellar space for millions of years, and that’d have to one durable alien spaceship to still be working. Still, if there’s some signal emanating from ‘Oumuamua, that’s probably something we should know about. * |
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Astronomers Will Scan Mystery Interstellar Object to Make Sure It’s Not a Spaceship - Oumuamua_orbit_at_perihelion-640x461.png
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https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...-not-spaceship That is an odd shape for an asteroid * |
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. "Miloch" wrote in message news https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...-not-spaceship That is an odd shape for an asteroid * You just know those sneaky aliens have hollowed out the asteroid and installed offices inside! * |
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On 12 Dec 2017 07:42:52 -0800, Miloch
wrote: In article , Byker says... This is a multi-part message in MIME format. "Miloch" wrote in message news https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...-not-spaceship That is an odd shape for an asteroid * You just know those sneaky aliens have hollowed out the asteroid and installed offices inside! ....and Starbucks... |
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