Thread: 'Oumuamua
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Old November 27th 17, 10:08 PM posted to sci.astro.research
John Heath
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On Monday, November 27, 2017 at 1:44:32 AM UTC-5, Richard D. Saam wrote:
'Oumuamua has a rotation period of 8.1 hours,
similar to Kuiper Belt objects
implying a common origin
in the vast depths of interstellar/intergalactic space.
RDS
=20
[[Mod. note -- I don't think the implication is quite that strong.
Oumuamua clearly isn't Rama
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_with_Rama
(which was said to have a 4 minute rotation period), but it's hardly
implausible that some bodies originating in different places might
have roughly similar rotation periods.
-- jt]]


Not many natural occurring events produce a cigar shape. If someone
wanted to snoop around our solar system to see what the odd RF emissions
are about then Oumuamua trajectory would about right to accomplish
this. A 4 minute rotation would be a nice scan rate for broad band RF
sensors. They could be here to ask how to decode the meaning of life
from the Chuck Barrie song we sent. I would not want to be the one that
answers that question.