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Oumuamua is Nitrogen-Ice Fragment of Pluto-Like Exoplanet, New Theory Says | Astronomy – Sci-News.com
A duo of astrophysicists at Arizona State University looked at several different ices and the push they would give ‘Oumuamua as they evaporated and found that the…
1I/Oumuamua, a strange object of extrasolar origin discovered on October 19, 2017 by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope, was small, about half as long as a city block and only as thick as a three story building, but it was very shiny; its shininess is about the same as the surfaces of Pluto and Triton, which are covered in exotic ices. In new research, a duo of astrophysicists at Arizona State University looked at several different ices and the push they would give Oumuamua as they evaporated and found…
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