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Astrophysicists Discuss Our First Encounters with Interstellar Objects
StarTalk·Oct 8, 2024
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He is skeptical of the idea that 'Oumuamua was an alien probe and prefers other scientific explanations for its trajectory.
“there are other ways a trajectory can be influenced as you near the Sun if you have ice content the Sun will evaporate that ice in the ice out gases oh now you have a little you know retro rockets that couldn't alter which way your object is moving so there there are other ways”
StarTalk · Jan 2020 · 3 episodes · 2.3M views on this topic
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The interstellar object 'Oumuamua exhibited anomalies suggesting it may have been artificial in origin.
“the object came from outside the solar system and so i suggest that maybe it's artificial in origin not natural”
Danny Jones Podcast · Feb 2021 · 1 episode · 238K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
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