In this image, Omuamua looks like a flesh Millennium Falcon, but it may be the remains of a Pluto-like planet.
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Since we were visited by Muamua, Endocrine matter before being seen wandering in our solar system, Scientists are fascinated by it. It’s a puzzling cosmic tiger – so strange that some scientists have It could also be part of an alien technology (Although there is no real proof.)
A new theory appears in two papers published Tuesday in the Journal of Geophysical Research: The planets show that this strange object, the object Pluto, may have been a piece of outer planet that exploded from its home solar system about 400 million years ago. .
“This research is exciting in that we’ve probably solved the mystery of what Omuamua is,” said Steven Deshe, an astrophysicist at Arizona State University and co-author of the new study. “We can reasonably identify it as part of another solar system’s ‘exo-pluto’, a planet like Pluto.”
Omuamua (Hawaiian for “scout” or “messenger”) Found in 2017 As it spins the sun as it exits our solar system. It was seen in October, October and November of 2017 before disappearing into the dark.
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It shows some strange behavior. Observations indicate that it is cigar-shaped, and as it orbits the sun, it assembles a large work that builds the comet – more than expected – without any signs of a gas escape. .
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Dashek and co-author Alan Jackson believe that in another planetary system, somewhere in space half a billion years ago, the collision between two cosmic bodies was caused by an explosive ejection of nitrogen ice. A pancake-shaped block was thrown from his home and into the space between the planets.
In the ths depths of the cooling of the universe, this solid block of nitrogen will wander, slowly being removed by radiation. When it entered our solar system and came close to the sun, the nitrogen warmed up, giving it some momentum, while Earth observers also produced the cigar-shaped product they were considering. Jackson says the heating would have flattened the bag, just like how the outer layers of soap are rubbed during use.
It is a neat explanation, taking into account all the peculiarities of Omuamua, and it is a compelling hypothesis because it suggests that Omuamua is the first part of the exoplanet to visit our solar system.
The observations made by nitrogen-rich astronomers on Pluto and Neptune’s moon Triton also matched Omuamua’s reflectivity. In the distant young solar system, where bodies were constantly infiltrating each other, it is reasonable to think that the parts have been thrown through space for a wild ride and we have seen them pass through.
“We gave the reason that it is possible that Plutos in other solar systems could have had nitrogen ice on their surface and that a fragment of it could have entered our solar system and explained everything we saw.”
And that, he said, puts the damper on alien spacecraft theory.
“Everyone is interested in aliens, and it was inevitable that this first thing outside of the solar system would make people think of aliens.” “But not going to a conclusion is important in science.”
So far, scientists have found only two interrelated objects. Second, 2 I / Borisov, Was found in late 2019 and Was fairly common by comparison. It was almost certainly a comet, but it was Surprised the scientists with some special features.
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