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No it wasn't.

Was ‘Oumuamua a comet? Avi Loeb responds to new research

"Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb 

in a photo taken by his daughter, Lotem Loeb. 

His 2021 book Extraterrestrial suggests the possibility

that ‘Oumuamua might be an alien spacecraft." 

(I think he's right...kinda.

I dont think it's alien.

I think it was a scouting party from the locust from the bottomless pit mentioned in Revelation 9.)

"On March 22, 2023, EarthSky published word of a new peer-reviewed study – conducted by researchers at UC-Berkeley and Cornell – suggesting that the strange object known as ‘Oumuamua is not as strange as many had first thought. The new work suggested that ‘Oumuamua, which streaked past our sun in 2017, is simply a comet from another solar system."

"Late in the day on March 23, EarthSky received an email from Avi Loeb suggesting what he called a (non-peer-reviewed) “correction” to the comet idea. Loeb wrote:

In a new paper that I submitted this morning for publication in collaboration with Thiem Hoang, we show that the paper published today in Nature by Jennifer Bergner and Darryl Seligman miscalculated the surface temperature of `Oumuamua.

"Bergner and Seligman suggested that the peculiar acceleration of `Oumuamua can be explained if it was made of water ice which was partly dissociated into hydrogen by cosmic-rays in interstellar space. However, their surface temperature calculation near the sun ignored the crucial cooling effect of evaporating hydrogen."

"By adding the cooling from hydrogen evaporation, our new paper shows that the surface temperature of the iceberg is reduced by an order of magnitude."

‘Oumuamua by the numbers

"In other words, Loeb is standing by his assertion for the possibility that ‘Oumuamua isn’t a natural object." He continued, with a numerical explanation:

"...As a result of the decrease in surface temperature, the thermal speed of outgassing hydrogen is reduced by a factor of 3 …"

"Hydrogen and propulsion

And he explained why flawed numbers presented in the comet study would lead to a flawed conclusion:

The original model required that about a third of the hydrogen atoms be separated from water by cosmic-rays, and hence the new result requires all the hydrogen to be separated from water. This makes the model untenable because a full-hydrogen surface resembles the hydrogen iceberg model proposed in a previous 2020 paper by Darryl Seligman.

Following this original proposal, I wrote a paper with Thiem Hoang, showing that heating by interstellar starlight would quickly destroy pure hydrogen layers, not allowing them to reach the solar system as `Oumuamua did.'"

(I mean...do you really have to be a Harvard astronomer to figure out:

 If this thing had been in space as long as the people who were studding it say it has been?

Then all the "outgassing" would have already occurred long before it got here?)

And speaking of Avi Loeb:

(I'd like to meet him too someday :-)

Harvard physicist plans expedition to find ‘alien artefact’ that fell from space

"Avi Loeb organizing $1.5m search to Papua New Guinea to look for interstellar object that crashed into ocean in 2014"

"A prominent Harvard physicist is planning a Pacific expedition to find what he thinks might be an alien artefact that smashed into the ocean."

"Avi Loeb announced that he is organizing a $1.5m ocean expedition to Papua New Guinea to look for fragments of an object that crashed off the coast of its Manus Island in 2014."

"Loeb noticed the object in 2019 and identified it as the first interstellar meteor ever discovered – meaning it originated outside our solar system. According to Loeb, the meteor’s interstellar origin was confirmed to Nasa in April 2022 by the Department of Defense’s space command."

"Loeb and his team also concluded that the meteor was tougher than all other 272 meteors in Nasa’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies catalog."

"According to Loeb, it is possible that the meteor is tough “because they are artificial in origin … launched a billion years ago from a distant technological civilization.”

(Okay how did that get there then :-).

"The ocean expedition is expected to use a ship with a magnetic sled deployed using a long line winch. The team will consist of seven sled operations, as well as a scientific team."

“We will tow a sled mounted with magnets, cameras and lights on the ocean floor inside of a 10km × 10km search box. A number of sources have been used to narrow the search site to this relatively small search box,” Loeb and his team wrote."

"The size of the fragments to be potentially found by Loeb’s team will depend on the composition of the meteor. For an iron meteorite, the physicist predicts about a thousand fragments larger than a millimeter. If the meteor is of stainless-steel composition, Loeb’s team expects to find larger sizes with tens of fragments larger than a centimeter."

"Loeb said that in case his team recovers a “sizable technological relic” from the expedition, he promised Paola Antonelli, the curator of the Museum of Modern Art, that he will bring it to New York for display."

"The expedition is expected to launch this summer, the Daily Beast reports."

“There is a chance it will fail,” Loeb, who is co-founder of the $1.755m Galileo Project that is tasked with searching for extraterrestrial signs, told the outlet. Nevertheless, he remains adamant about the mission."

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” he said.

(I love that last quote...

Resonates...

Yup...

Somebody packin their bonafides around with 'em...

Yup.....)

Anyways :-).

Interesting guy.

 And he is 100% correct in his assertation that:

‘Oumuamua isn’t a natural object."