Monday, February 18, 2019

Our First Known Visitor From Another Star System

Our first confirmed interstellar comet passing through our solar system was named Oumuamua.

Hank Green has the facts.  It is traveling at 25Km per second.  There are no objects in our solar system shaped like this.  It has a length to width ratio of 10 to 1.

Just a wild theory, but this object could be a solar sail, or the remnants of a space battle!



TED has this topic covered as well.

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