ScienceWorld getting weirder

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 science behind the oddness of the recent fly-through of the Oumuamua object, and why science suggests it might have been a solar sail probe of some sort on a fly-by.

Was 'Oumuamua' a light sail probe visiting the Solar System? Dr. Avi Loeb chats.
Oumuamua a solar sail?

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