Is the Oumuamua asteroid? The explanation is more fruitful than a stranger

A space object called Oumuamua (Hawaiian for "reconnaissance" or "messenger") got a lot overheats the attention this week after the widely respected A Harvard scientist was co-author of paper, who suggested that an interstellar visitor might be a foreign spacecraft powered by the pressure of solar radiation.

It seems that the new article, Abraham Loeb, and the postdoctoral researcher Shmuel Bialy, who is still in the process of peer review and publication, had more attention than the original discovery of the first thing, the solar system from the outside.

Previously, research was proposed Oumuamua is perhaps a foreign probe and then used radio telescopes to scan for any signs of artificial signals. These observations returned negatively. However, we will probably never be able to fully explore the hypothesis of Loeb and Bialy, since Oumuamua traveled from Earth at very high speeds for more than a year.

Astrophysicist and cosmologist Katie Mack (without a link) suspects that it is difficult to challenge the theory of "perhaps aliens" could be part of the calculation for the publication of the journal.

"If you came to something in the category" not * obviously "wrong and also HUGE IF TRUE," the probability that the publication will return the fire, small, and a low-probability payment that you could reward, worth facing with your colleagues's eyerolls , "Mack tweeted about the paper and the big answer he received.

So if you get to something in the category "not * obviously" wrong and also HUGE IF TRUE, "the probability that the posting will return the fire, small, and a low-probability payment with a lot of reward might be tempting enough to face the eyes your colleagues.

– Katie Mack (@ AstroKatie) November 6, 2018

In other words, whenever something mysterious happens, which is difficult or impossible to carry out further studies, you can not completely exclude aliens as a credible explanation. Moreover, at any time foreigners could be credible explanations for something, someone is sure to step in and fill this vacuum. This time around Harvard's astrophysics and cosmologist filled this void, which caused an Internet crisis.

There is no real strong evidence that Oumuamua spacecraft – Loeb has just noticed that it has moved in the same way that one could expect the so-called "bright sail" vessel, as it was Easy Starboard Starter is trying to fly. (Loeb also has its headquarters in Breakthrough Starshot.)

Paper Loeb and Bialy is just one of the literally dozens of Oumuam. This is not the first to suggest that the subject could be artificial and is not even the most strange proposition story about a big interstellar roller or cigar, or whatever you think it looks like. Here is a brief overview of other theories for which Oumuamua came.

Invisible space is visible?

One of the earlier and more distant explanations suggested by Oumuamua could actually be a large piece of "macroscopic dark matter". Dark matter is an invisible material that it seems to represent a great universe.

"In contrast to frequent defects, the dark matter is not necessarily in the form of weakly interacting elementary particles, but could be found in much larger parts," says British scientists at Case Western Reserve University, the Canadian Perimeter Institute and Stanford.

Researchers argue that if their hypothesis were true, Oumuamua's transition could have altered the orbits of Merkur, Earth, and the moon. No one has yet confirmed any changes on these planetary paths.

Fragile from another solar system

One of the most popular explanations of the original Oumuamu in literature is the idea that the remainder of the planetary formation process is around another distant star. It's basically just an interstellar asteroid from the whole universe.

They think that the early days of any solar system can be particularly turbulent and chaotic with parts of the remains around the city, and some may even be fired from the system as a whole.

One recent study used new data that they tried precisely narrow down the star systems a male vagabond could have been expelled from.

Another theory shows that Oumuamua could not come from the remnants of the planetary formation, but from the remnants of the destruction of the planet.

"I conclude that the source of Oumuamu as a fragment from a planet that was greatly disturbed and then released by the guest of the gnus of the binary system could explain its particularities," writes Matija Cuk Institute SETI in the article Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Here is the idea that a star with a dense red star star could tear apart a planet that buzzed at least with cigar hair in our direction.

Comet from a coma

Another early explanation was that Oumuamua was some kind of strange comet on the other side of the galaxy in the form of no comet we've ever seen and it had no obvious tail. Nevertheless, it accelerated at the exit of the solar system, such as the comet, as it increased from heated ice and water on the sun.

Different researchers suggested that this may be the core of a dead comet, a comet that was fragmented in a similar way to the above-mentioned explanation of the planet or just a comet, similar to an uh … thing.

Not those foreigners

There were also some suggestions that Oumuamua might not even be an alien. Some recent research explores whether it actually came from the edges of our own solar system. One article went so far as to suggest that her strange behavior and course can be explained by being "sprayed" by "an even unknown" planet in our solar system.

Yes, this is a reference to what is sometimes called Planet 9 or Planet X, a different confusing and integrated concept that tends to run the Internet.

A further article by the aforementioned astronomer Jason Wright of Penn State casts cold water on the idea that an invisible planet might have inhabited Oumuamua with us.

As long as it stays on its current path, the mystery of the human first interstellar fly will remain. Well, if "Oumuamua suddenly makes a turn."

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