Thread: 'Oumuamua
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Old November 27th 17, 10:07 PM posted to sci.astro.research
Richard D. Saam
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On 11/27/17 12:44 AM, 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

[[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]]

Arthur C. Clarke visions always had an aspect of truth.
His((with Stanley Kubrick) computer human conflict in
2001: A Space Odyssey
is surely applicable to today.
Arthur may have liked the analogy to Rama
in the Hawaiian name 'Oumuamua
-"reflecting the way this object
is like a scout or messenger sent
from the distant past to reach out to us"
Apparently several of these interstellar objects
travel within the orbit of the Earth several times per year,
thus providing possible opportunities for study.
In the mean time it interesting to note
that the ~8 hour time period
has been observed from separate perspectives:
1. Kuiper Belt object rotations
2. Asteroid rotations (not as good a correlation due to collisions
possibly modifying their original 8 hr periods)
3. Lisa Pathfinder accelerometer oscillations (1/8 hrs)
(A Machian oscillating universe)
4. Gravity Probe B anomalous gyro oscillations (1/8 hrs)
5. Solar oscillations (1/8 hrs)
6. Distant stellar oscillation observed by the Planck space craft

This data all point to a possible inherent property
of interstellar/intergalactic space.

Such a coherent space property (nu~1/8 hrs)
would necessarily define an extremely low temperature(T).
T = h*nu/k ~ 10^-16 K
What are the implications for 'dark matter' and 'dark energy'?

RDS