Astronomy and Space exploration discussion

Hey everyone, just wanted to post a link to this story. Seems kind of odd (or sad) that this has had so little media spotlight. It just amazes me that we were able to, by chance, catch a view of this 400 meter rock flying through our neighborhood.

Just thought I'd share.

http://astronomy.com/news/2017/11/int...

-Jon

Thanks ..thats a amazing story . Now there will be a lot of Alien kind of discussion about its origins on the Internet

Its a weird name though "'Oumuamua ......actually we humans are weird , we give these things a weird names and later call it weird...

O My lord , they say it comes from the direction of the Star Vega , if that's the case , Contact movie will have a lot of spotlight

Guys the thing is , Comets and Meteors are mostly common , This very case made it to the Internet community because , Its unusual . Its shape , its size , color , and fact that it has an interstellar origin is an interesting factor . And speaking of interstellar origin , we may point out at the Movie Contact , if it was an alien artifact or anything belonging to life , But it isn't . Its just an Unusual Interstellar Object

I was waiting on someone to mention Contact! Haha!

And I think you're spot on Alok- the physical characteristics of it probably drove more interest than the fact that it hailed from way outside our backyard- or at least helped garner interest.

What I'd love to see is another mission with a lander to orbit and set down on one of these and find some form of extremophile, or frozen, or fossilized microbial life. Now that would be something. Not just from outside our solar system, but elsewhere in our galaxy, or even local group.

you know friend ? . its called the "Panspermia". It is nothing but just a theory that says , life on earth has come from one of these meteors which has microbial life when hit to the surface of earth . If what you say happens in future . Panspermia will be proved and our current evolution theory will be Doomed

And that answers another Big Question "Are we alone?" and later we can say " "no dude , they watching from above" ...hahaha.

Hahaha!

I’d love to see anything that challenges what we “know” for sure. Knowing is boring. Pursuit, now that’s fun!

true!

Starman wrote: "you know friend ? . its called the "Panspermia". It is nothing but just a theory that says , life on earth has come from one of these meteors which has microbial life when hit to the surface of ear..."
i assume u mean Darwin's "warm little pond" and the failed experiments of Harold Urey and Stanley miller and all the succession of would- be experimenters. BUT the TOE (that;s evo, not everything) of variation, inheritance, competition and SOF still sticks. Darwin was deeply troubled by the paradox, speciation required existence of life forms to vary so where did the first one originate.And along came hoyle, wickramsinghe,but aside from finding some amino acids in space clouds, the question of origin was merely pushed out . to the oft quoted Drake equation about millions of worlds hence life elsewhere a certainty, a sobering calculation of the odds of even a single protein evolving by a mix up such as the Miller experiments, by Paul Davies in THE Fifth Miracle, is 10 to the power 130. Talk of thousands of proteins etc. Sorry to go off at a tangent, and to revert to the Wow factor, what are the chances of finding Alien Life, and lesser still, knowing we have found it? so would such an eventuality "doom" the present , admittedly -riddled -with- holes TOE?