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Scientists determine the origin of extra-solar object 'Oumuamua
- jschveibinz 6y agoOpinion: Scientists did not “determine” the origin. Scientists “speculated” on the origin by looking at the data and posing a hypothesis.
- gus_massa 6y agoI agree that it is not a "determination", but it is more than a "speculation". Perhaps it's a language thing, but for me speculation is only some hand waving you do while drinking coffee with other physicist/astronomers in the cafeteria of the university. [Hi from Argentina!] They made a model of the object as Nitrogen ice, and apparently it fits the observations and they published it in a peer review journal. [To be fair, the solar sail explanation is also published it in a peer review journal.] What about "Scientists propose new explanation of extra-solar object 'Oumuamua an Nitrogen_2 ice fragment of an exo‐Pluto surface"
- jschveibinz 6y agoPerfect