Thread: 'Oumuamua
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Old November 27th 17, 07:44 AM posted to sci.astro.research
Richard D. Saam
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'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]]