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Lex Fridman had a really good interview with Avi Loeb about Oumuamua, among other things, about a week ago. Highly recommend! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p

• dfsegoat 6y ago
  Having watched the vid, he goes into specifics of why he thinks Oumuamua is 'not a rock' based on geometry and reflectivity. It was quite fascinating.
• TacoToni 6y ago
  Fantastic episode.
• libertine 6y ago
  Very interesting, and it gives a really good highlight of the whole Oumuamua event, which got a bit distorted in the media. The things that stood out were: - Our range of vision to spot such objects is narrow; - We don't have much "resolution" of the object, and we have to work with limited data; - that fact that we managed to get that data was already really good and it's enough to theorize about a lot of stuff, but not enough to tell precisely what it was. - the object behavior as it approached the sun doesn't match the type of object that we perceived at the beginning; - the object could have been stationary;
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