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Re:Interstellar Visitor Found to Be Unlike a Comet or an Ast... by azernik on Friday October 12, 2018 @05:33AM (#18200295)
Just that it's unusually close.
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Re:Interstellar Visitor Found to Be Unlike a Comet or an Ast... by RobertoG on Friday October 12, 2018 @06:54AM (#18200539)
As we are in paranoid mode (and it's fun to be, isn't it?): not only it's unusually close, but it seems that Earth is the planet it pass closer in all the Solar System.

Maybe somebody should check if that "slightly acceleration" bring it closer or farther to Earth.

Maybe we have been photographed. I hope it's not that somebody shoot us and failed.

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Re:Interstellar Visitor Found to Be Unlike a Comet or an Ast... by ssijak on Friday October 12, 2018 @08:16AM (#18200870)
Aliens got us just before GDPR, sneaky bastards!
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Re:Interstellar Visitor Found to Be Unlike a Comet or an Ast... by dwaltrip on Friday October 12, 2018 @10:24AM (#18201618)
There is a bit of sampling bias, given that we are looking for space objects from Earth, and so it easier to detect something that comes closer to Earth. Not sure how significant the bias is for an object of this size and speed, but I'm guessing that it is probably a relevant factor.
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