Finding Interstellar Visitors Flying Through The Solar System
Oumuamua and Borisov were the first interstellar visitors found by humanity. There should be many more of them. How can we find it and what will it mean for Astronomy? Finding out the answers.
🟣 Guest: Dr David Jewitt https://epss.ucla.edu/people/faculty/555/
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Comments (3)
Is it possible that Omuamua was a diamond shaped object that spun off it's "skirt" and only the center column is left?
This conversation is fascinating. Is it possible for an object of any size to do repeated orbital transfers between two stars? Could an asteroid or planet do a figure eight between two (or more) stars?
I realize the likelihood of this is very low. After all space is 3D so the first orbital transfer would be an accident with subsequent movements being very unlikely to be aimed just right to continue the pattern. Still...