Is Oumuamua Alien Space Junk An Asteroid Or A Comet Study Sheds

Is Oumuamua Alien Space Junk An Asteroid Or A Comet Study Sheds Oumuamua, like most comets, is rich in water. before the comet entered the solar system, the extreme cold of deep space would cause the water to freeze into ice in what is known as an amorphous state. The mystery even had some commenters speculating that 'oumuamua might be an alien spacecraft. but a new study published wednesday (march 22) in the journal nature reveals a more mundane.

Joint Shaped Space Projectile Oumuamua Is A Comet Newshub A study published wednesday in the journal nature indicates that the interstellar visitor, dubbed oumuamua, is neither an asteroid nor an alien spacecraft (as some wags had suggested) but a small. In a study published on wednesday in the astronomical journal, astronomers explained that they pointed spitzer at 'oumuamua for two months after its initial detection but they couldn't detect it. The study is “the most convincing model so far” for ‘oumuamua, says marco micheli, an astronomer at the european space agency in italy who was not involved with the work. the alien visitor, he says, was actually not so different from solar system comets. ‘oumuamua was first spotted on 19 october 2017. a telescope in hawaii spied it as. Avi loeb, an astronomer at harvard who has proposed that oumuamua could have been a light sail or some other alien artifact, was quick to take issue with the new paper. “the authors of the new.