TUMBLING PIECES OF A WRECKED PLANET

Oumuamua - Faraway Message

Source:  NASA/ESA

Hurtling Through Space
Astronomers call the tumbling space
object Oumuamua.  In Hawaiian, 
that means a message from afar.
That's what it certainly is.  

Oumuamua was first discovered in

2017.  Some scientists thought

it could be a vestige of some sort

of alien life, because everything

about this space object is so

unusual.  

New Discoveries and Findings

Two astrophysicists,

Yun Zhang at the 

Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur in 

France & Doug Lee at U-CAL in

the US, have different findings.

They believe that the reddish-

colored, cigar shaped object

tumbling through our solar 

system is the fragment of a wrecked

planet that got too close to the

star it was orbiting around. The

gravitational force of the star

destroyed the planet and the 

fragment is among the pieces

that are left.

First Arrival

Oumuamua is the first object

from another star system found

passing through our solar system.

Fortunately, it's passing out of

our solar system and will reach

Uranus in August 2020.  The 

fragment is 1/4 miles long. And, 

it's elongated like a cigar in

shape.  It has very odd motion and

a dry appearance. The 

scientists say it

isn't like an ordinary comet or

asteroid.

Computer Simulations

Their computer simulations

tell the team that this is the

remnants of a wrecked planet, 

that blew up from the stronger

gravitational forces of another

object in space such as the

"tidal forces" of a star. This 

is one of the extraordinary new

discoveries made in the dynamic

universe all around us.

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