Re:Breakthrough Listen Project to Observe Interstellar Objec...
by nwah1 on Monday December 11, 2017 @04:58PM
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I was informed that its shape and rotation make it very unusual, in addition to being the first known interstellar object.
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Re:Breakthrough Listen Project to Observe Interstellar Objec...
by andygates on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @05:07AM
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In our solar system, most small stuff has been rounded by billions of years of collisions. This may be a primeval shard from a high-energy collision in another solar system - unaffected because it was flung out of that system at high speed. Cosmic pointy shrapnel. :)
(Big stuff self-rounds per gravity, of course, but this ain't that big)