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Is it still possible to send a space probe to catch up with Oumuamua? (science video).
What exactly was the enigmatic interplanetary object we call ‘Oumuamua’? Was it a totally new kind of asteroid or comet that passed…
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January 2022
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What happened to SpaceX’s potential Oumuamua mission in collaboration with Nasa? (science video)
So, let’s find out whether SpaceX and NASA have any plans to address the mystery of Oumuamua.
April 2021
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Oumuamua: an ancient alien solar sail sat? (video).
In this 40-minute-long video, we examine how iIn late 2017, scientists at a Hawaiian observatory glimpsed an object soaring through our inner solar…
March 2021
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Oumuamua: new theory, but extraterrestrial lightsail is still the most likely explanation (video).
Some scientists are now trying to explain away the Oumuamua interstellar visitor as a frozen slice of a Neptune-like planet, without explaining why…
January 2021
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Oumuamua: Avi Loeb says it may have been an alien solar-sail visitor (audio).
In this hour-long audio interview with the Planetary Society, Avi Loeb, the Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, chats…
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Oumuamua: first alien solar-sail probe to visit the Solar System? (science video)
Avi Loeb, the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science and astrophysicist at Harvard University, explains why in his new book, Extraterrestrial: The…
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Avi Loeb, Harvard Professor of Astrophysics, on why the Oumuamua visitor was an alien light-sail craft (video).
Avi Loeb, Harvard Professor of Astrophysics, on why the Oumuamua visitor was more likely than not to have been a light-sail powered piece…
August 2020
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Interstellar object Oumuamua might be alien probe, now solid hydrogen concept disproved (science news).
In 2018, the solar system experienced a visiting object flying by from interstellar space. The object, dubbed ‘Oumuamua, seemed to be long and…
November 2018
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Was ‘Oumuamua’ a light sail probe visiting the Solar System? Dr. Avi Loeb chats.
Dr. Avi Loeb of Harvard University (as well as the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) does a little video about the background and…
June 2018
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Oumuamua’s odd speed-up: NASA has one theory, UFOlogists, another.
Using observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories, an international team of scientists have confirmed Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object…