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November 21, 2017 08:00 am
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/BlWZTYmAXVk/study-of-recent-interstellar-asteroid-reveals-bizarre-shape
Study of Recent Interstellar Asteroid Reveals Bizarre Shape
JoeRobe writes: A few weeks ago an interstellar asteroid, now named "Oumuamua," was discovered passing through our solar system. Being the first interstellar asteroid to ever be observed, a flurry of observations soon followed. This week, an accelerated article in Nature reveals that Oumuamua is more bizarre than originally thought: it is elongated, with a 10:1 aspect ratio, and rapidly rotating. This conclusion is based upon comparisons of its time-dependent light curve to those from 20,000 known asteroids.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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