Today, as my new post in Steemit, I am posting about "Billionaire Alien Hunter Will Scan the Cigar-Shaped ‘Oumuamua Comet’ for Alien Life" which will lead to a new era of exploration and it's exciting to see what kind of new information the mission will provide for the safety and protection of our planet. Please go through it to know more about it with a positive attitude in mind.
Not entirely. The discovery of an interstellar object has been anticipated for decades. While it is a historic discovery, the existence of interstellar objects is not a surprise. What is a surprise, however, is the fact that the first detected interstellar object is an asteroid—not a comet as most scientists had expected. Even more surprising is the strange, highly-elongated shape of 1I/2017 U1. None of the known asteroids or comets in our own solar system have such an elongated shape.
Scientists are surprised because they expected an interstellar comet, not an interstellar asteroid. Their models indicate that the material that our own solar system ejected into interstellar space after formation was mostly cometary. Evidence of that comes from the types of objects seen in the Oort Cloud, a vast spherical cloud around our solar system thought to consist of the planetesimals that were nearly ejected from our solar system, but not quite. The vast majority of objects that dive into the inner solar system from the Oort Cloud are comets, and only a very few are asteroids. The very high ratio of comets to asteroids is thought to also apply to objects ejected from our solar system. Scientists assumed the same high ratio of comets to asteroids also hold for material ejected from other solar systems, but the asteroidal nature of 1I/2017 U1 suggests that that may not be the case.
The first object to visit our solar system from interstellar space is currently making a clean getaway from our cosmic neighborhood. But according to astronomers watching its escape, the space rock’s surface is anything but clean.
So, astronomers are preparing to scan it before it’s beyond our reach. Russian billionaire Yuri Milner is leading a team of scientists to check it for radio signals and transmissions of any kind to see if there’s anything of intelligence on board.
This is a unique opportunity that we mustn’t let slip through our fingers because this is the only interstellar object floating through our solar system that we have ever seen. That in itself is intriguing and has a higher probability of containing some evidence of other intelligent life. Of course, we can speculate all day but taking action to analyze it is a quite reasonable thing to do and a no-brainer.
After examining how the object reflects sunlight, scientists found that the strange rock, called ‘Oumuamua', is probably coated with a carbon-rich schmutz in a layer that’s more than a foot thick. The residue likely formed as interstellar radiation bombarded the object’s surface as it tumbled through the void.
NASA has suggested before that the Oumuamua comet has just been floating around the Milky Way haphazardly for hundreds of millions of years until is accidentally entered our solar system… Thank goodness for billionaire Milner and those like him who are willing to put their own money on the line to take an honest look at what’s happening out there in space.
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