(12-01-2020, 10:44 PM)Senor Fantastico Wrote:

(12-01-2020, 10:18 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: The giant turd? Some people have actually postulated that it's an alien craft. 

Most likely it's a gravitational castoff from some system outside our own solar system. Or it could just be an interstellar wanderer. The universe is full of that stuff.

They say it's changed speed and has an unexplainable trajectory. I've never heard of it before but I'm intrigued.

The tinfoil hatters are always on this stuff. Its origin is approximated pretty closely and the change in speed has to do with solar pressure because it's a pretty large object. 

It's my belief that in the next century we'll have the means to land on and sample fast moving and far out objects like this. Feasible plans to capture smaller asteroids and return them to Earth are already well on the drawing boards. The problem there lies in the value of such objects. If they are rich in rare metals and elements, it would turn international markets on their ear. It's a delicate situation.

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