22 November 2017 - Oumuamua

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Let’s get this straight. It came from interstellar space and yet passed curiously close to the sun, inside the orbit of Mercury. Nearly all interstellar objects are expected to be icy, but it let off no trace of vapor or dust despite the close passage. And you think it is ten times as long as it is wide, triple the ratio of any known asteroid. All this and you don’t believe it was a visiting starship?

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