Another potential interstellar object discovered

for keeping this interesting news and thread avlive....

Drudge linked to a story about it-

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How many interstellar objects have been discovered? And how would they make that determination. I personally choose to believe my own belief that there are none and all asteroid and comets etc come from our own solar system being that I believe the universe is almost 7000 years old, which means everything is too far away to make it here from there in that short amount of time.

Kromagss or Reavers? Asking for a friend

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By measuring its orbit and determining the orbital eccentricity. An eccentricity well over 1 indicates a strongly hyperbolic orbit. This one has an excess velocity somewhere on the order of about 30 km/s, well above anything it could have attained through perturbations in the Oort cloud and indicating it didn't come from here, it does not share our solar system's trajectory through the galaxy and it's just passing through.

Oh boy, here we go. You can believe whatever wacky horseshit you want, but it has no bearing on reality.

Well, you're wrong.

Another thing you're wrong about.

It would mean that light itself from most stars in our own galaxy wouldn't be able to make it here in that time, let alone other galaxies. We can measure up to tens of thousands of light years by parallax alone thanks to the Gaia mission.
[link to arxiv.org (secure)]
Sorry, but your entire worldview is demonstrably wrong.

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We now have big bad telescopes that peer into space.

And recently there are numerous sightings of 'one in 100 years' events in space... and objects found floating about.



I think that the public has a disdain about space... after having been told that "space contains nothing, it's a vacuum" repeatedly.

Now things are being seen... but in a way, it's kinda too late to generate a general interest in interstellar events.... unless it 'impacts' our lives in a direct manner.

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