A highly unusual object was spotted traveling through the solar system in 2017. Given a Hawaiian name, Ê»Oumuamua, it was small and elongated – a few hundred meters by a few tens of meters, traveling at a speed fast enough to escape the Sun’s gravity and move into interstellar space. I was at a meeting when the discovery of Ê»Oumuamua was announced, and a friend immediately said to me, “So how long before somebody claims it’s a spaceship?” It seems that whenever astronomers discover anything unusual, somebody claims it must be aliens. Nearly all scientists believe that Ê»Oumuamua probably originates…
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