First Interstellar Asteroid Wows Scientists

Scientists were surprised and delighted to detect -for the first time- an interstellar asteroid passing through our solar system. Additional observations brought more surprises: the object is cigar-shaped with a somewhat reddish hue. The asteroid, named ‘Oumuamua by its discoverers, is up to one-quarter mile (400 meters) long and highly-elongated-perhaps 10 times as long as it is wide. That is unlike any asteroid or comet observed in our solar system to date, and may provide new clues into how other solar systems formed. For more info about this discovery, visit go.nasa.gov/2zSJVWV .

[@ivanreyes4605]

Aliens sending us an interstellar blunt.

[@finessethaprofit7325]

Puff puff and a billion year pass

[@robrob8500]

I'd be pretty high if I had a smoke of that

[@cassandralord5554]

Lol now that's the humor I'm looking for

[@Moodboard39]

😅😅😅 interstellar cigar

[@muhammedalieryigit4315]

Tell me about it but then again they are testing us or they are trolling us

[@diogenes7419]

Sun to other Star: Dude, can you please pass on that Cigar, please...

[@noominiacal]

Share a cigar? What are you 14?

[@tiktike1]

Its a joke, calm down

[@ralphwalters906]

1300 feet long, and just 130 feet wide. Dark reddish color. Complex convoluted shape. Could possibly be metallic. No trace of a coma of dust and/or gas. What just passed through our solar system?

[@OppaiAI]

An asteroid maybe?

[@ralphwalters906]

They don't understand what they looked at. If Pluto is not a planet, how could this be an asteroid?

[@codemancz798]

Pretty sure it's just some random thing launched in early stelliferous era.

[@rbrad848]

I wonder what a Saturn 5 rocket would look like after flying between stars for hundreds and hundreds of years caked in dust?

[@blank_3768]

Pluto lost its planet classification when the definition of a planet changed. The definition of an asteroid is fixed. It's an asteroid

[@Bulbashkin]

Looks like this asteroid narrowly escaped suction of a black hole )

[@RealLifeFinance]

Maybe it probed a black hole and survived

[@jackdavids2723]

Victor K You mean it was shat out of a black hole

[@avyanshankar6845]

Jack Davids Very probable. The thing that comes out of my black hole looks almost similar in shape.

[@valhal9331]

You must be faster than light to escape black hole

[@avyanshankar6845]

Valhal Nope

[@vishalsheth1888]

Imagine the Voyager spacecraft being detected like this after billions of years by some alien species and causing a global sensation on the alien planet. They would look at the sky and wonder with awe, but perhaps we would be long gone....

[@milesmanner]

I think about this scenario all the time. It would be the greatest discovery in their entire history.

[@randomaccessfemale]

V-ger

[@zachhib6413]

There's actually a video on that. It would take 80,000 years for Voyager 2 to travel 4 light years to the next solar system. So yeah. Not in our lifetime.

[@kvrt8772]

Vinícius Augusto nah by the time the earth inhabitable for life humans will be way more advanced in technology and the sun won't explode for a couple billion years so we all good

[@Dillon1108]

I can just see Voyager sitting in some alien museum somewhere in the galaxy millions of years from now, or it could end up as a bug on the windshield of some ship, who knows

[@aerospacenews]

This is truly extraordinary news. If only it could have been better imaged and samples taken! And the color! (Yes, I'm kinda excited.) :)

[@coreytaylor447]

you could made a pun that could have been just stellar there, but nope.

[@ablebaker8664]

I'm going to dance out on the end of a limb here and bet that we will see its cousins in the future. It may not have precedent in our system because our ice bodies don't have much structural strength and they tend to be accumulations... snowballs. Our nickel iron asteroids all seem to have been the result of a liquid alloy sprayed into surrounding space by a high energy impact... They typically look like foam... broken gas bubbles in dense metal. This looks like the impact product of a metallic or ceramic body in a semi-plastic state. Hot but not molten. It looks like the sort of splinter you might see from catastrophic failure of armor plate or similar bulk metal exposed to high velocity impact. If that is the case there should be other impact debris with very similar trajectories... Sufficiently similar trajectories wouldn't need to be 'identical' to end up headed toward us because unlike a static target our sun's gravity could influence those trajectories. I conjecture that there should be a time window during which we would be likely to have more debris from the same collision find its way toward our general direction. We could prepare for such an event. Possibly knocking some smaller bits off of it that could be brought into earth orbit for analysis/retrieval.

[@CheeseBon]

Thanks for your words. I enjoy thinking about this. Only the nature of the universe is far to random for me to hold my breath. This splinter could of grazed any number of planets orbit causing it to curve at a random angle where it traveled for thousands of years before reaching us today :(

[@Lacidios]

AeroSpaceNews.com, yeah, hopefully by the next time this happens (if it happens) we'll have a means to either stop it without damage or catapult a device to match its speed long enough to attach momentarily.

[@georgeapplegate3535]

What's worrying is that it wasn't discovered until after it had passed through the solar system. Had it been on a collision course with Earth, its impact would have been our first hint.

[@ticklemeandillhurtyou5800]

It's too bad they couldn't land a probe on it and hitch a ride it would have been fascinating to see what it's made of

[@Pats-qb3jt]

It hurts that you made me think of this. Man it would have been incredible to see where it went

[@name.placeholder1965]

It’s going way too fast for anything man made to catch up to it, but it would be cool if we could.

[@yourdiscoverelaxchannel9422]

perhaps the "crew" is dead and it flies through the universe since millions of years ?

[@vitakyo982]

That would be amazing ... but it's most probably a rock ...

[@JakeJarmel]

Or the "crew" may just be in hyper-sleep.

[@EpicLib]

Perhaps the crew was returning home, but as nobody was alive, ship missed its landing spot ;)

[@losangyolmo19]

Its the silver surfer

[@eroskaw5423]

exactly. its a probe. the vanguard probe.

[@139fulton]

❤❤🌪🏄‍♂️🏄‍♂️🏄‍♂️

[@SuccubiPie]

That is the dankest space rock I've ever seen.

[@ws8856]

its just an illustration tho

[@imawright4097]

Succubi Pie : So it's really good?

[@NesqRunner]

ayy lmoa

[@Gregman420]

Brah you haven't been to Saturn!

[@MrNazzrain]

get out with that pun boi

[@safire7384]

‘Planetary Defense officer’ that’s a pretty awesome job name.

[@shivas3003]

imagine, Oumuamua was some "kind" of lifeboat with people on it. they set out for our home, the earth, hoping to be saved. But when they passed by seeing our lights from afar, no one came to help them ...

[@TheVamxie]

Just a rock sadly

[@DapperMudkip]

I really admire the woman in the red shirt. It’s easy to see she loves her job and can truly appreciate the majesty of such a discovery. Her excitement is kind of contagious!

[@reallifepetergriffin6583]

let me ask you this NEO. Were you paying attention or were you looking at the woman in the red dress? Look again Mister Anderson, look to the sky before you die because its the last time you will!

[@CobaltFoxPlays]

It's comes to speak to whales

[@WildVke]

CobaltFox Plays... So Long and thanks for all the fish ✌🏼

[@WildVke]

Just in case you didn't know..it's a book title😁

[@HostileLemons]

CobaltFox Plays... star trek reference

[@CrashandTrash596]

CobaltFox Plays... Better take a loop around the sun and stop it

[@mm-ju7eh]

the best cite for making a logo

[@aestheticzea]

Welcome to our solar system!

[@ianconnor4325]

So much for the spheroid rule...

[@assaultytheshooter9929]

thanks what's occurring

[@user-lp7tx1fe6t]

@@ianconnor4325 what? What are you referring to?

[@dudel39]

0:53, this might be the only guy with this beardcut since 1945 lol

[@manuelkumli5393]

He is a Planetary defense officer. We are safe!!!

[@kx7500]

Not quite thin enough

[@Broken-xi5io]

That is definitely a peculiar shape for an asteroid. Its incrdeble the amount of things we have yet to discover.

[@CapinCooke]

Rendezvous with Rama. We didn't catch it. Dang! Seems to have a similar aspect ratio :-)

[@gulutaalan8845]

Incredible how interesting a single pixel image proved to be, just imagine if there were two pixels…

[@reallifepetergriffin6583]

the web space telescope is trying to imagine your statement right now but first it needs to figure out how to unfold the statement in space and it knows its only got one shot at it, then it can show you a giant smear of rainbow instead of pixels to get a better idea of whats going on of course. lol

[@usop382]

472 people are flat earth believers, "there is no such thing as an asteroid like that, all asteroids are flat-disk-shaped"

[@CrappyTTire]

It'll be back and will wait for responses back from Humpback Whales!

[@NerdSteve]

Very exciting. Plus, this object is traveling at an amazing velocity! How fast is it moving?

[@isthatachicken2640]

The aliens are sending in their own nukes

[@JesusRamirez-oh6wc]

they probably got anti matter

[@753238]

says your mom

[@OMG420]

It's kinda sad, we (the world as a hole) easily could have been prepared to take samples like this that fly bye now but we keep fighting with each other. Wish we could send away all the people that dont want to get along. I wish we could take money out of the equation and everyone find a skill. I guess I can dream and try to raise my kids to be responsible and contributor to society. Hope everyone has a great day 😉

[@maddieman5921]

Socialism

[@77Avadon77]

We should send black lives matter out there to get it

[@khalilkhalife8504]

Seems like an interesting opening scene for the next alien movie

[@openmind2161]

keanu reeves The Day Earth stood still

[@01wadder]

Its Life Force!

[@NesqRunner]

Battle LA

[@clappedbycarson2011]

Made by Disney ...

[@keytothegate68]

Every alien movie begins just like that

[@georgehinckle2028]

if it hit the moon, woulda been a home run. for sure.

[@blades7178]

Math is a hella of a drug

[@benjaminfitzgerald8445]

Gives shooting the moon a different meaning...

[@erickgarza3891]

Not an alien spacecraft. It is a resource rod that was a test of our civilization. If we were able to retrieve the rod, we would have been awarded with a bounty of rare metals and probably contact from interested extraterrestrials.

[@Myrddnn]

Erick Garza I like it! Original and plausible. A good idea for a book.

[@SouthwesternEagle]

Jim Myers I will say that! That's a very unique and interesting story idea that Erick Garza has. I've never heard of anything even remotely similar to it! I seriously mean that.

[@pseudonymBOB]

Erick Garza I like👍👍

[@dalerekus]

Zag Zagzag Trolls even here on a scientifically oriented video . .

[@Reactionary_Harkonnen]

Erick Garza Well if the fascist won World War II we would have such technology by now.

[@tom2314]

A theory on why it is so oddly shaped: Two large objects(possibly planets or moons) collided. The heat from the collision caused the rock or metal to become molten. The energy from the collision threw this particular mass of molten rock/metal out of the gravitational influence from its star system. However as it was escaping, the gravity stretched the molten mass before or while it was cooling creating the elongated shape.

[@Atom.Storm.]

I can already see the tin foil hats drawing over this to show us why it is actually an alien craft.

[@stayniftyGuyFaceMannPersonDude]

There are a lot of things we've never seen before, especially in space. Just because this is one of those things doesn't mean you should jump immediately to illogical conclusions.

[@pepperonihead]

Yeah because the "Scientists" will tell you that every thing is an asteroid. Well guess what, not every thing in the sky is an asteroid. These guys are very puzzled by this object. It is even possibly made out of metal!!! It is ignorant to think that when there are Billions of civilizations out there and most likely millions of them that are thousands if not Millions of years more advanced then we are, that they could not travel through interstellar space. We are traveling farther and farther into space and will continue to do so. If we by some miracle grow to be a civilization that lasts millions of years, you can bet that we will be interstellar travelers. What a civilization that is even 100s of years older then us can do would look like Magic to us. Open your closed mind!

[@pumpuppthevolume]

nah tin foil hats will tell u that everything is fake including the iss spherical earth the moon landing ....the moon itself and the universe.....conspiritards r awesome

[@lladerat]

dont waste your time on idiots

[@pepperonihead]

Yes I do. I am an astronomer. I know that there is an Iron content to many asteroids. The fact that they stated in the Spaceweather.com artical on this that this could be made of METAL, not that it could be made of Iron is very telling! They did not say Iron, they said Metal. That makes one question what this object is. I own a Celestron 11 inch GPS telescope. I live on Maui just down the road from the Pan-STARRS observatory. How about you? What have you observed the sky with. Do you take the time to observe the sky at all? I also have two Gen 3 night vision goggles and go out almost every night. Do you know why I do that, because the things I see in the sky almost every night would change your mind about weather there are unexplainable objects flying around in space! I see them almost every night. And many people who have closed minds have sat with me and seen them too and have never been the same. I do not know what these objects are, I dont' know if they are aliens, but they certainly fly in a a manner that would lead one to believe that they are under intelligent control. I know how to disseminate between a satellite, an Iridium flare, a bird, a plane, a bug, or a meteorite. And the things that I see are deep in space and are none of these.

[@sosalish441]

Looks like a big blunt.

[@RealLifeFinance]

Its the NASA promo for legalizing marijuana worldwide

[@sosalish441]

Intergalactic doobadge

[@Mknoodles]

Cracked me up you made my day

[@codemancz798]

Choose your drugs: starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Smoking

[@cmaaahh52]

John c, I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought Collector ship.

[@SyafiqKim]

Thanks for visiting!

[@machenrymentor9868]

Krypton just blew up So get ready superman is on is way

[@Ttw1976]

Nice

[@declanlionheart1628]

If only

[@declanlionheart1628]

I would also settle for zod lol

[@yuikijr4418]

Lol

[@blades7178]

Ends up being a true story

[@trinaholman4083]

So, 10x longer than wide, spinning along it's long axis, no dust or other stuff coming off it, and making a "slingshot" pass of our sun from above? And not one suggestion that it might not be a rock????

[@Ylts92]

It's certainly not spinning on its long axis. If it were, it wouldn't display such an extreme brightness variation.

[@InsultDictator]

Aliens

[@melodicnostalgic3823]

It might be common for a rock to be so elongated to those proportions, Simply because Gravity is crazy out there in Space. Can you imagine the stress exerted by a Star 20 - 100 times the Mass of our Sun on asteroids ? Just because we don't see it here doesn't mean it doesn't exist out there..

[@darknightgaming5716]

Trina Holman I made you a tinfoil hat

[@trinaholman4083]

Why Thank you Darknight! Mine was getting a bit tattered.

[@whatukno354]

Wouldn't you love to capture it and analyze it? See if other stellar systems have different compounds.

[@melodicnostalgic3823]

It is traveling at 60,000 Miles per Hour..

[@beartrappr2841]

I would like to see its composition. See if it compares to our chondrites. Do a count of the rare “earth” elements within it.

[@divinemoments5344]

We put a lander on a comet, perhaps with more time to prepare we could land on an object like this asteroid.

[@MrSeanman30]

MelodicNostalgic how fast are the earth and moon moving?

[@BillHawkins0318]

Rosetta was a space probe built by the European Space Agency launched on 2 March 2004. Along with Philae, its lander module, Rosetta performed a detailed study of a comet. It's a shame we didn't have our game face on when 'Oumuamua came a calling. That would have been fascinating to hitch a ride on it and explore.

[@AhmedKhaled-ix9cn]

2:23 She is so excited

[@tyruscharles]

You would be too if you can claim this thing, too far to see properly, is the reason to keep funding this program millions of dollars and paid your salary.

[@oregonsbragia]

So was it detected before it passed or after it had already flown by?

[@karmaarachnid8345]

It was discovered 5 days after it made its closest approach. Apparently there was an image of it recorded in a sky survey on the day of closest approach, October 14, that was not noticed until a few days after the initial discovery.

[@InsultDictator]

They've known for years

[@naturalisted1714]

Sean Sbragia don't worry... we won't see it coming

[@chrispy4224]

wtf, looks like they kept it on the low-down. Government and MI5 only, until is passed safely. Little do they know this is the first fly by.

[@SC0RPI0NFURY]

That thing is huge! Imgine the damage if it hit earth 😐

[@DeaddINSiDe]

1:14 . Thats how i would describe my "asteroid" 😅

[@coreylutz8617]

It is very "puzzling" to quote the video haha!

[@Sami_m_a]

Lol 😂😂

[@Brawlio13]

Bruno Borici "Very unusual shape" XD

[@whichgodofthousandsmeansno5306]

Unusual shaped rock. Aliens flying through space for billions of years confirmed! I wonder what they do with most of their time being there is nothing much to see once out of our solar system. I hope they packed a lot of books.

[@whichgodofthousandsmeansno5306]

Should add, if they referred to this object as anything other then an object or rocky object or "interstellar asteroid" it would not be technically correct.. The term asteroid would refer to a rocky object that is orbiting our sun from the asteroid belt. So object or interstellar asteroid is the correct terminology. Granted if it displayed any properties of something other then an unusually shaped interstellar asteroid it would have been much bigger news.

[@danielgray3912]

One thing missing, it was "singing" to us and it circled the earth twice according to other "scopes" and ham radio operators and it was speeding up and then slowing down. Call it what you will but asteroids dont do this.

[@alexsiemers7898]

[citation needed]

[@danielgray3912]

you want a citation? www.google.com/search?q=Oumuamua+sings+to+us&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1

[@inkoalawetrust]

Doesn't look like anyone is claiming that it's an alien spacecraft except conspiracy nutjob sites.

[@Hypnos.7]

A citation should directly reference a credible source with recognized/legal experts.

[@danielgray3912]

So ABC-NBC-CBS-FOX-NASA are all wrong because you say so? Did your mother drop you on your head when you were a child?

[@chriszanas5297]

I love how excited Kelly is. You can't fake that.

[@vassternich1]

Reapers!

[@x_x5009]

vassternich1 don't worry , Normandy arriving in a few hundred years.

[@Hyarmendilcar]

Nah its just a collector ship, no big deal

[@shaulin3000]

A L I E N S

[@DaBuGzLiFe]

@Thru Dim get ready

[@willdorten6867]

The funny thing is, i believe I was abducted either during or right after this flyby. Definitely in the months or possibly slightly over a year a most from when this thing was around. I just never heard about it until later so i never made the connection.

[@kx7500]

@@willdorten6867 get checked by a psychiatrist

[@internationalist713]

@@kx7500 🤣🤣🤣😅😅😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣

[@Jagerbomber]

It's just Matthew McConaughey perpetually yelling "Murph!" as he aimlessly flies around the galaxy...

[@undataphstarlane6752]

I dont get the refrence

[@MartinKronstrom]

When I first heard about this interstellar object I was really excited... then power in place told us a very different narrative which became 'the truth'.

[@ImmaChiaotzu1]

I don't want to say aliens...... but aliens.

[@carlbole2142]

Actually go read about "Planet Nine"...will explain a lot 4 you

[@keithharris7569]

This is just an alien “flypast” probe. After all, aren’t we ourselves thinking about sending such things to closest stars one day?

[@alexsiemers7898]

Not anything nearly as big or oddly shaped as this, though.

[@Steezy93]

@@alexsiemers7898 I heard this thing accelerated out of our solar system..... would be a very smart way to disguise a spy spaceship if you were millions of yrs more advanced than us....

[@YDDES]

matty dodd and, they would ”Spie” on What???

[@Steezy93]

@@YDDES our species... we are the aliens to them

[@Moodboard39]

@@Steezy93no proof of that... Just rocks everywhere... How it's going to enter when they claim another galaxy is thousands light years away, and take thousand of year or million to reach... Proxmia centauri B would take 20k years to reach or 80k lol spacecraft

[@daveking7061]

Wow . . it looks like a big joint !

[@codemancz798]

starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Smoking

[@thiccmrspotatohead4175]

What if we could land a telescope on an interstellar asteroid the telescope wouldn't need fuel to travel

[@genericgeometrydashyoutube4360]

that's actually a pretty good idea, but it would be almost impossible to anchor it to the asteroid.

[@tom2314]

You wouldn't have to anchor it. In space there is no atmosphere to push it off of its position. But you would need fuel or some type of energy to send a strong enough signal of the telescope's data back to earth. Solar power is not an option once it travels far enough away from the sun.

[@Brawlio13]

Tom Wostoncroft ... They said it has seen another sun that's not part of our system so it's possible.

[@olaruud9366]

Neat idea. But i wonder, unless we plan to smack into it faster than a bullet, would not the spacecraft have to accelerate to a similar course and speed in ordet to "dock" with it and doing that making the point mute as it is already travelling as fast as the rock ?

[@qaawara109]

This comment needs more likes (well, we already did that on a comet/asteroid in 2007?.....ugh forgot the name of the probe too) -sry my memory is hazy-

[@seemoretoys5944]

7 dislikes? Wow, some people sure have a dim view of the world.

[@coreytaylor447]

its 14 dislikes now

[@seemoretoys5944]

Now 28 - They belong to the haters club

[@AH-tx1nj]

Aliens

[@CallsignYukiMizuki]

2k - 58 is a good ratio tbh There will ALWAYS be people that will downvote something

[@CloisteredExplorer]

They're not dislikes. People just liked it and then flipped their screens vertically thinking they could give the video another like.

[@yunremy3776]

Ever watch the arrival?😂

[@theolamp5312]

+YunRemy - Yes, one of the most intelligent Sci-Fi movies in years.

[@nanamensah9033]

Haha lol

[@YoungDen]

Deep stuff right there

[@Alex-px9oy]

Great movie, actually sort of how I would picture real extraterrestrials. Completely unrecognizable biological life forms.

[@Dronebertios_World]

It would be cool if we could one day intercept objects like these we could learn so much about the formation of other solar systems.

[@adithiaviswan]

This astroid travels 35km/SECOND.imagine being in a spaceship and this astroid travels towards your ship..

[@sansirow4595]

Imagine that there are even bigger, faster and "dangerourer" stuff out there.

[@alexisbierquedebirkadefauv1744]

Sansirow *more dangerous

[@sansirow4595]

i was joking :)

[@Raptormon132]

It looks like a Mon Calamari Star Cruiser from Star Wars.

[@albankastrioti4765]

I'm so happy that it didn't hit us!

[@agustinmorales5419]

an object of that size and traveling at that speed would destroy any form of life.

[@charleswilson7371]

How did it change course?

[@bigdawg_gun4200]

Is mayonnaise an instrument?

[@alexsiemers7898]

I mean, you could gargle it...

[@pseudonymBOB]

Silly patrick

[@carolynmmitchell2240]

it's the most elegant instrument you can play.

[@TheMrhockey32]

no patrick mayonaise is not an instrument

[@Spino2Earth]

Norwegian: Nei Patrick, mayonnaise er ikke et instrument.

[@philipmarkedwards]

It's too bad we weren't able to capture it.

[@stratsarebest]

Rendezvous with Rama

[@videoshoot7]

Very interesting and puzzling. Are we expecting some more objects and what if they hit earth? NASA is really great identifying this object.

[@name-nu8vb]

Aliens : sending signs from another galaxy Scientists: Pff, that’s probably an asteroid

[@illustriouschin]

How is that shape not a spaceship?

[@erichuff6945]

Gordon Chin it's the sewage waste dumped from an alien spaceship.

[@prettygoodgamer]

Because it's a rock with no propulsion system.

[@morskojvolk]

Because it's rock-shaped, not spaceship-shaped. Geez!

[@ChispyReddit]

Eric Huff A Xenoturd.

[@MrDaddynomates]

Gordon Chin Its a carrot

[@RealLifeFinance]

I love seeing a woman very excited and enthusiastic about a rock hard object ten times longer than wide

[@eirikkvalheim8627]

hahahahahaha

[@kosh2501]

heheh.

[@jasoncougar194]

Lols

[@orkhepaj]

like a snake?

[@grossleg123]

Jason Maggard just a typical woman then !!

[@eshan309]

This is so so fascinating!

[@johno1544]

The designs people have come up with for interstellar ships tend to have a similar cigar shape for a number of reasons. This asteroid even appears to be spinning another feature many design have to create artificial gravity.

[@Efrain891]

Imagine what secrets that asteroid could’ve held. It’s basically like having another world billion of miles away come straight to us.

[@muhammedalieryigit4315]

Its not a asteroid they let you think its asteroid but in reality its a camouflage. And it's a space frigate population of 800 or 500 aliens

[@muhammedalieryigit4315]

Or 300 aliens

[@pacoaliv]

its a planet cracking bullet!!!!!

[@Myrddnn]

Pacoaliv if it did hit a planet like ours at the velocity it is traveling at it might well wreck it for any form of life we know. Fortunately, it is already well past us and never even got close.

[@assaultytheshooter9929]

+Galaxy 69 we must get earth a chastity belt

[@quinsey8655]

Fantastic! A remarkable story about an incredible object

[@kaneyoung8491]

Honestly so mysterious and perplexing

[@ruqaiyah1412]

Where the flat earthers now?? 😂

[@wsmokr]

Rukaiya Shaikh Looking for Bigfoot.

[@Brawlio13]

Lee Man explain gravity and where it leads. Just curious

[@ryb2180]

Joel and Babygirl Lol right😂 These people must feel so cool cause they're different..

[@thatkeepskillingyouintitan64]

Alejandro Sintes Ruiz de la Escalera me bro?

[@StretchReality]

Lee Man honestly can’t tell if your trolling or just clinically insane

[@hgwha9820]

Wow~ The first?! That interstellar object passed our solar system at nearly 100,000killometers!

[@DrogoBaggins987]

I want a sample return mission! We have no idea when or if an opportunity to get a physical material sample from beyond our solar system will come again.

[@rcchristian2]

What is most disturbing is, that we discovered Oumuamua after it passed our sun. We may not have seen it, if it was on a trajectory towards earth...

[@katkitten5140]

This is Amazing & I'm interested in learning more about it. I have a question I hope to find out some day. So if this asteroid is from a different galaxy and has been flying through space God knows how long, but my question is by entering a new atmosphere, new galaxy, Could that has caused any changes in the object??

[@brianhammer5107]

it's not from a different GALAXY - it's from another star group of our own - somewhere in the past

[@honey4xi]

How can we protect ourselves for our survivals *when many asteroids are heading to Earth?*

[@Super-qr7wm]

Simple we cant and shouldnt . We are merely tennants .

[@solanumtinkr8280]

So what we know for sure is it's a 10 to 1 ratio in length to width and its irradiated....We really need some probes we can fling out at these things! Hard to rule anything out when the details we have are myopic at best compare to the vast distance involed, keep up the good work though! :) Star Shot style mirco-probes might be one idea, for disposable one off flybys? I wonder if the Deep Space Gateway would be a good place for housing a pursuit probe for the next odd rock we want to closely examine? There was talk of probes that could visit asteroids and come back after all. I hear we are short on Pu for RTGs, since the vast majority was produced decades ago and is "going stale". But I also heard of a U235 reactor called KRUSTY that can actually be turned off instead of constant decay like a RTG and the whole 700m year halflife is certainly better than less than 24 for the Pu RTGs. Plus the facilities for making KRUSTY fuel is the mainline production anyway. Turning bomb material in in fuel instead, how cool is that? Now I know KRUSTY is in cooldown at present so they can examine the system to see how it held up to the depleted U test before entrusting it with and active fuel core, but how would such a power system change the make up of a pursuit or asteroid hunting probe? Better engine, etc?

[@BluRey100]

Oumuamua, a Hawaiian word meaning “a messenger from afar arriving first.”

[@lcjeffries]

Star Trek Doomsday Machine.

[@redace7592]

Plot twist,it's a teleportation device sent from an alien planet. 👾👾👾

[@MrAkirabilly]

That's amazing! The physical properties of objects could change based on the galaxy it's in. Like changing server rules. It could have been built and fired like a bullet by another civilization. It could be made of anything or have anything attached to it. Very exciting.

[@endreims2194]

The laws of physichs is the same in the Whole universe

[@stephenanastasio8057]

It looks like some alien RV traveler just emptied his waste drain and this solid one broke loose

[@theJellyjoker]

"it's very reddish in color" Because red makes things go faster!

[@BerickCook]

Hello RAMA

[@donavincarlberg7439]

YES! I was thinking the same thing.

[@gabiwolf7060]

Yeah RAMA is coming :D Arthur Clark was right....

[@cowboybob7093]

Well played!

[@andreblanchard8372]

Then there should be 2 more coming.

[@positronundervolt4799]

Hello FADA.

[@balls433]

This is so cool. I wonder where it’s home is and how it was sent from possibly another galaxy

[@abhijeetdeshpande1057]

It has travelled millions of years. It is reddish in colour so it means ir has been soaked in blood and it has been feeding very fast.

[@k_andr3]

the biggest cigarette in the whole universe

[@sidassassin6670]

Aliens

[@darknightgaming5716]

No

[@thatkeepskillingyouintitan64]

I didn't knew space objects are organic creatures... MAKES SENSE NOW!

[@SleepNeed]

Amazing discovery! I wonder how long ʻOumuamua has been traveling through the interstellar space before visiting our very small corner of the galaxy and how long it will continue.

[@giampaolopazini1074]

If that thing is from another solar system, that simply means something (probably bad) happened there and if we check its route from where it coming everything will be clear.

[@trey5wop199]

It’s an intergalactic blunt

[@codemancz798]

starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Smoking

[@karenwoodhouse5214]

The whale Cartmen sent to the moon!

[@carolynmmitchell2240]

Karen Woodhouse he didn't do it alone, he had his friends and Mexican NASA.

[@luciddreaming999]

Karen Woodhouse lol

[@mynameisjeff4231]

So trending did somthing good today so proud of it !!

[@piotr.ziolo.]

Stanisław Lem described such an encounter in Tales of Pirx the Pilot. It was an abandoned spaceship from another civilization. And Pirx was so unlucky that memory banks in his ship had a failure just before and during the encounter so he could not store its trajectory. It was lost forever.

[@aidan9538]

What you do after smoking that?

[@wsmokr]

Aidan andhisPC Eat some pizza.

[@veritasgravitas8608]

So it comes into our solar system , swings past earth of all planets, close enough for us to see it and then leaves our solar system again. Just a coincidence...I'm sure it happens all the time...lol

[@thatnormalguy9]

As a kid, I always wanted to work for NASA. Imagine all the cool space stuff you get to see.

[@dimitristripakis7364]

If you knew what their daily routine is, you would run.

[@serg10x]

Does it fly pointing towards where its going or is it turning?

[@CodeLeeCarter]

I hope someone has had the foresight, to take a look in the direction it came from, following its trajectory back to look if they may be any more that have been accompanying this one.

[@jecht3009046]

The issue is that objects that small are only observable when they are incredibly close. Even when one knows what to look for it can be hard to spot Pluto-like objects at distances past the Kuiper belt. And this asteroid is many many times smaller than Pluto.

[@jecht3009046]

RaVee Shankar C The best way to determine that would probably be by looking at it's trajectory and seeing if it has motion that is inconsistent with typical Newtonian mechanics. My guess (don't quote me on this) is that they used the Hubble Space Telescope to get an accurate reading of its size, but the images are nothing as intracate as what I assume are artist renditions seen in the video. The images are more like blobs of light that have a defined shape that can be measured. Hope this helps. Edit: I stand corrected. The Hubble will be used in early 2018 to get a better image of it. The best pictures we have come from a variety of sources. If you look up the Nature article about this object, you can see the actual photos taken of it. It's a short article with some very interesting information!

[@b0ilerboy]

Look at the name of this celestial object Oumuamua and it tells you what scientists think it really is. Oumuamua is the name of the type of pizza that Elliot's friend was ordering right at the time Elliot was making first contact in the movie E.T., which means that Oumuamua is a subliminal message to the rest of us to look a little closer and then the rest of us will see the truth.

[@yeee5614]

Astroid:can you play with me guys? Planets and sun:no!

[@AeroGraphica]

This immediately reminded me of "Rama", the automated intergalactic spaceship. Same shape, similar size. (Arthur C Clarke , "Rendez-vous with Rama" ). Fantastic book.