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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1      Non-Film Score Discussion: Science: Cigar Shaped Asteroid!   Last Post   Posted:   Nov 22, 2017 - 9:44 PM     By:   Solium   (Member) I personally think its the "Whale Probe" from ST4. Artist rendering in link below- When astronomers using the Pan-STARRS1 telescope in Hawaii spotted a mysterious object dashing through our solar system on Oct. 19, they immediately knew it was something special. Traveling at high speed and originating from interstellar space, this object was originally thought to be an ancient comet, but observations revealed it was, in fact, an asteroid from another star system. 'Oumuamua is thought to be at least 1,300 feet (400 m) long, rocky (with some metal perhaps mixed in), relatively dense and shaped like a cigar, researchers said. It likely acquired its ruddy hue after being bombarded by high-energy cosmic rays for the millions of years it's been drifting through interstellar space, team members added. Source: https://www.space.com/38838-interstellar-asteroid-oumuamua-space-cigar.html    Posted:   Nov 23, 2017 - 5:56 AM     By:   Last Child   (Member) I personally think its the "Whale Probe" from ST4. Sometimes a cigar-shaped asteroid is just a cigar-shaped asteroid.    Posted:   Nov 23, 2017 - 6:32 AM     By:   Adam.   (Member) The arachnids from Klendathu hurled that toward Earth to destroy mankind. Would you like to know more?    Posted:   Nov 23, 2017 - 9:11 AM     By:   Grecchus   (Member) Nice to see a 'Science' thread - it's been a while. If the object is long and thin, then there's room for a fair amount of speculation. My first impression is that it appears to be some kind of splinter. It has a shard-like overall shape. So I'm thinking some massive collision has broken the original object of which it was a part into pieces. The real emphasis here is that for such a large object to have retained that kind of length, while being involved in a massive head on with something else, the idea is that the majority of the force causing it to detach from whatever it was embedded must have been acting along that impressive length. The other side of the coin is if it was broken off a larger body, then the forces doing that could very well have been tidal and did not involve a direct impact. How else can you explain a body belonging to a solar system being ejected from the system? A colossal injection of energy is required to do just that. If it takes massive collisional or tidal events involving the breaking up of whole rocky masses to be flung completely out of a star system, then the next one we see could well have the same sort of shape as Oumuamua - it could be a common denominator. Edit: just a small addendum. The shape of Oumuamua, being shard-like, implies that the object to which it might have belonged was more likely to have been shattered apart. This is the major aspect to my line of thought. Unfortunately, we don't have clearly resolvable images of this extra-solar visitor. The discussions of the determination of Oumuamua's shape come from the frequency of light emissions taken in the very short period of time it has been observed and in the short time that is left before it is no longer visible or resolvable in astronomers' telescopes.    Posted:   Nov 23, 2017 - 9:14 AM     By:   Solium   (Member) Nice to see a 'Science' thread - it's been a while. If the object is long and thin, then there's room for a fair amount of speculation. My first impression is that it appears to be some kind of splinter. It has a shard-like overall shape. So I'm thinking some massive collision has broken the original object of which it was a part into pieces. That's my thoughts as well.    Posted:   Nov 23, 2017 - 7:52 PM     By:   spiderich   (Member) Fascinating stuff! Richard G.    Posted:   Nov 25, 2017 - 9:45 AM     By:   Justin Boggan   (Member) Cigar-shaped you say? (something I made a few years ago)    Posted:   Nov 25, 2017 - 9:55 AM     By:   Grecchus   (Member) Apparently, asteroidal bodies with aspect ratios of 1:10, of which Oumuamua appears to exhibit, are a no-go in our Solar system. Most are like unpeeled potatoes with about 1:3 aspect - reputedly, if you see the asteroid belt sequence from TESB, the ones in the background are spuds whizzing about - there's life out there???    Posted:   Nov 28, 2017 - 1:57 PM     By:   leagolfer   (Member) Looks like a gigantic space-turd! Heading to earth s$$$    Posted:   Nov 29, 2017 - 6:36 AM     By:   Jehannum   (Member) I genuinely wish I still had my childhood fascination with space. However, my present view is that weirdly-shaped lifeless lumps of rock are still just lifeless lumps of rock. And that's what the non-empty parts of space appear to be full of. The universe has been something of a disappointment so far. Even more so than realising Father Christmas (etc.) doesn't exist.    Posted:   Nov 29, 2017 - 7:22 AM     By:   Solium   (Member) I genuinely wish I still had my childhood fascination with space. However, my present view is that weirdly-shaped lifeless lumps of rock are still just lifeless lumps of rock. And that's what the non-empty parts of space appear to be full of. The universe has been something of a disappointment so far. Even more so than realising Father Christmas (etc.) doesn't exist. Replace "universe" with humans and I'd agree with you!    Posted:   Nov 29, 2017 - 10:50 AM     By:   Grecchus   (Member) Yup. I guess we really do win the prize goldfish bowl jackpot. We swim, swim some more and keep on swimming (until the bigger fish). But there's another thing. Poor old Galileo never got to see what we've seen through his eyes even if he did enunciate what most of us can't.     Non-Film Score Discussion: Science: Cigar Shaped Asteroid!    < 1  >   Go to page:  1   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1

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