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TEHRAN, November 06 -Harvard researchers have suggested a mysterious interstellar object that was spotted floating in space in 2017 could be an “alien” spacecraft sent on a reconnaissance mission to probe the Earth.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - Harvard researchers have suggested a mysterious interstellar object that was spotted floating in space in 2017 could be an “alien” spacecraft sent on a reconnaissance mission to probe the Earth.
The cigar-shaped asteroid or comet – dubbed Oumuamua – was discovered in October last year by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii.
Given its high speed and unusual trajectory, the dark-red object was believed to have come from outside our solar system but its flattened and elongated shape as well as the way it accelerated on its way utterly distinguished it from other conventional asteroids.
Two Harvard researchers, Professors Abraham Loeb and Shmuel Bialy, raised the possibility in a paper that the reddish object, which is 10 times as long as it is wide and traveling at a speed of 196,000 miles per hour, might have an "artificial origin."
Oumuamua, named after the Hawaiian term which means "a messenger from afar arriving first," is the first object ever seen in our solar system that is known to have originated elsewhere, according to the pair at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Source: Press TV
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