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Oumuamua does not behave like another comet and a Harvard scientist suggests that it is an extraterrestrial probe, but the astronomer who discovered it says that it 's only that. a "wild speculation".
Robert Weryk discovered this strange interstellar object in 2017 at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Hawaii.
"I think it's a remnant of another solar system – it's just something that has fallen on us, and we've been very fortunate to have used the telescope." that night and have looked in that direction, "Weryk told Afternoon Drive on CBC.
"This has been theoretically predicted for decades, but we have never seen it before, until we see another, there are many questions we can not answer."
But the question of whether the cigar-shaped object is an extraterrestrial probe, as suggested by Harvard scientists Abraham Leob and Shmuel Bialy?
"Honestly, it's a bit of wild speculation," Weryk said.
Leob is the chair of astronomy at the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Center, where Bialy is a postdoctoral fellow. Their article was submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
They hypothesize that "Oumuamua" could be a fully operational probe, intentionally sent to the Earth's surroundings by an extraterrestrial civilization. "
"There is a maximum speed at which you can travel to be gravitationally bound by the sun.When we saw this object for the first time, it was traveling faster than that, so we know for a fact that it came from there. outside of our solar system.We decided that it was a comet that gave off some gas that was not visible from the ground, which is why it did not appear to be a comet, "was -he declares.
"(The Harvard researchers) decided to focus on another aspect of this phenomenon, namely that it was an extraterrestrial spacecraft and that it had a solar-sail-like material that was driving the non-gravitational trajectory, but we think that it is not true, obtained. "
Weryk's work in Hawaii is focused on the search for asteroids presenting a danger to the Earth.
"We hope that during this research, one of them happens to be another interstellar object," he said.
Finding another object of this type would allow scientists to collect more data and probe the object for more answers.
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