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Joel Kontinen
Ever since it floated into our system, the interstellar visitor Oumuamua has intrigued and perplexed scientists. Now, a new theory has said that the cigar shaped space rock might actually be a DUST BUMMNNY,
The study, led by Jane Luu, an astronomer at the University of Oslo in Norway, was published 'Oumuamuaon September 4 in the Astrophysical Journal Letters suggests that the ”interstellar space rock could have formed from dust blown off the nucleus of a comet outside of our solar system. This rock, an accumulation of rock and dust from the comet, would be pushed through space by solar radiation and eventually take a short tour of our solar system.”
The cigar-shaped
interloper ”could have formed from dust blown off the
nucleus of a comet outside of our solar system. This rock, an accumulation of
rock and dust from the comet, would be pushed through space by solar radiation
and eventually take a short tour of our solar system.”
Some early texts
supposed that 'Oumuamua was a
space invader, sent by aliens to spy on Earth.
Source:
Gohd, Chelsea. 2020. Interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua could actually be a cosmic dust bunny Live Science 9 September.
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