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Um, l-lads?
You might want to hold onto your butts.
>11/'Oumumua is the first known interstellar object to pass through the Solar System. It was discovered on a highly eccentric hyperbolic trajectory by Robert Weryk on 19 October 2017, 40 days after it passed its closest point to the sun.
Here's where you can start clenching your asshole.
Recent analysis of the "asteroid" has turned up the following.
>The object is highly elongated with an axial ratio of 4.1 to 6.9, comparable to the most elongated Solar System objects...[it] has dimensions of approximately 180 m x 30 m x 30 m.
>the object is small and dark, with an unprecedentedly bizarre max-to-min light radio
>rotation period is extremely unusual
>no outgassing
>our sun is probably the second star is ever met
>did I mention no outgassing?
For an object to be this extreme is so many unrelated ways is very, um, suspicious.
More data to come out soon, but the general chatter among astrophysicists is, shall we say, intense at the moment.
