Mystery of interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua gets trickier

Post by throwaway2019V » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 2:52 PM UTC

sandworm101 wrote: post #7

If we put half the energy we use up arguing about Oumuamua into detecting more interstellar objects we would have the data to end this debate. I'm a fan of the pragmatic mathematical approach. This was the first thing detected. The chances that the first result is also any sort of outlier are very slim. Detect and track some more of these objects. I'd bet good money that Oumuamua's motion is very explainable once we…

Post by sandworm101 » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 2:56 PM UTC

themgt wrote: post #10

sandworm101 wrote: post #7

If we put half the energy we use up arguing about Oumuamua into detecting more interstellar objects we would have the data to end this debate. I'm a fan of the pragmatic mathematical approach. This was the first thing detected. The chances that the first result is also any sort of outlier are very slim. Detect and track some more of these objects. I'd bet good money that Oumuamua's motion is very explainable once we…

> If we put half the energy we use up arguing about Oumuamua into detecting more interstellar objects we would have the data to end this debate This HN comment was just the motivation I needed to get off my computer and rededicate myself to polishing eighteen 1.32m gold-plated beryllium hexagonal mirror segments.

Post by pavel_lishin » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 3:00 PM UTC

sandworm101 wrote: post #14

themgt wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If we put half the energy we use up arguing about Oumuamua into detecting more interstellar objects we would have the data to end this debate This HN comment was just the motivation I needed to get off my computer and rededicate myself to polishing eighteen 1.32m gold-plated beryllium hexagonal mirror segments.

You don't need the telescope. There is an effort to discover interstellar objects in old data, which is largely a matter of spotting faint objects and calculating thier orbits...ie coding.

Post by sandworm101 » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 3:06 PM UTC

pavel_lishin wrote: post #16

sandworm101 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't need the telescope. There is an effort to discover interstellar objects in old data, which is largely a matter of spotting faint objects and calculating thier orbits...ie coding.

Can you link us to where we can contribute?

Post by dboreham » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 3:11 PM UTC

person_of_color wrote: post #17

I don't get it. Why don't we image this thing directly?