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Interstellar visitor (?)
10-25-2017, 06:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-25-2017, 06:55 PM by robkelk.)
Assuming that this
Minor Planet Electronic Circular is correct, the Solar System has some company: a comet from some other Oort cloud.
Discussion is ensuing.
(News spotted
here.)
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RE: Interstellar visitor (?)
10-25-2017, 07:00 PM
If that is really from another system we need a probe for data ASAP. Somebody tell the scientists at your space program of choice. And all the other space programs.
Also, to see if comets from other systems are indeed potential vectors for planet destroying life forms, as terrible movies would tell us they are.
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RE: Interstellar visitor (?)
10-26-2017, 02:12 PM
Dropping magnitude?
It's been and gone. It's harvested our DNA, kidnapped a few drunken hicks, then flown on back to wherever.
I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.
One day they're going to ban them.
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RE: Interstellar visitor (?)
10-26-2017, 03:40 PM
(10-26-2017, 02:12 PM)Dartz Wrote: It's been and gone.
Which means they missed.
This time.
But they've confirmed range to target...
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RE: Interstellar visitor (?)
11-07-2017, 08:43 AM
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RE: Interstellar visitor (?)
11-07-2017, 12:33 PM
Nice. And that's a cool little document to read.
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RE: Interstellar visitor (?)
09-14-2019, 07:39 AM
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RE: Interstellar visitor (?)
09-15-2019, 07:00 PM
We missed Rama I, here comes Rama II... will we be able to get to it this time?
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RE: Interstellar visitor (?)
09-15-2019, 08:10 PM
Probably not.
To put it quite simply, the trajectories of such bodies make them hard to intercept and often need specific mission profiles and equipment designed for the rendezvous just to have a chance. And we don't have one ready right now to do the job.
