Researchers at Queen's University Belfast have driven overall examinations concerning a puzzling item that passed near Earth in the wake of touching base from profound interstellar space.
Since the object was seen in October, Professor Alan Fitzsimmons and Dr Michele Banister from the School of Mathematics and Physics at Queen's University have driven a global group of space experts to sort out a profile of the odd guest, which has been named "Oumuamua".
An artist's impression shows the first interstellar asteroid, 'Oumuamua. Observations show that this unique object was traveling through space for millions of years before its chance encounter with our star system.
Credit: ESO/M.Kornmesser
Dr Michele Bannister said: "We've discovered that this is a planetesimal with a well-baked crust that looks a lot like the tiniest worlds in the outer regions of our solar system, has a greyish/red surface and is highly elongated, probably about the size and shape of the Gherkin skyscraper in London.
"It's fascinating that the first interstellar object discovered looks so much like a tiny world from our own home system. This suggests that the way our planets and asteroids formed has a lot of kinship to the systems around other stars."
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Just please i wanna see aliens before i die omg...
I had better start learning klingon. Nice Post
this is a great discovery , thanks @originate for sharing
They were the ancient astronauts!! :)
Oh man this is such an interesting story. I have been looking into it because of course there was so much hype about it possibly being some kind of alien probe/scout/tech and of course it could possibly be but no real evidence of that so far.
Either way it is so interesting as its the first "interstellar astroid" that we are aware of anyways.
Space is just so so so interesting, mysterious and exciting!
Love you Brother, hope to connect again in this vast space we call earth ;-)>