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A comment on Breakthrough Listen Project to Observe Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua.

Re:Breakthrough Listen Project to Observe Interstellar Objec... by jdnier on Monday December 11, 2017 @06:09PM (#15901592)
"Oumuamua is now about 2 astronomical units (AU) away... At this distance, it would take under a minute for the Green Bank instrument to detect an omnidirectional transmitter with the power of a cellphone."

That's pretty impressive.

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Re:Breakthrough Listen Project to Observe Interstellar Objec... by flukus on Monday December 11, 2017 @07:50PM (#15902192)
Shouldn't we have some much better pictures and a better idea of it's shape at that distance?
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Re:Breakthrough Listen Project to Observe Interstellar Objec... by garmaine on Monday December 11, 2017 @11:23PM (#15902987)
The thing is tiny, and that is very far.
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