Well hey... It's possible. Not likely but possible. It could be a dormant long term hibernation ship en route somewhere. Computing it's trajectory would be a w

Well hey... It's possible. Not likely but possible. It could be a dormant long term hibernation ship en route somewhere. Computing it's trajectory would be a way to look at this. Very long term deep hibernation would be one very plausible way to go to the stars. It could also be a ship that malfunctioned and died millions or even billions of years ago. If it were traveling very fast it could play stellar gravity ping pong for a long time until eventually settling into an orbit, hitting something, or being ejected from the galaxy. Picture some insectoid alien mummies playing silent vigil in cold intergalactic space until the heat death of the universe and bust out the theramin. Whatever it is I wish NASA could cook up a flyby. A light small prove could probably get tossed on a high enough energy trajectory to catch it and take some pics. Surely the first extrasolar object is interesting. Edit: elsewhere several people pointed out that a tumbling object like this might not be an interstellar ship/probe but a spent expendable acceleration stage for one.