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On the Anomalous Acceleration of 1I/2017 U1 `Oumuamua Darryl Seligman, Gregory Laughlin, Konstantin Batygin (Submitted on 12 Mar 2019)

Did the rotation slow and heat one side causing the gasseous acceleration? 2600:100D:B10C:EEDC:49A7:A3F5:AD06:A64E (talk) 03:59, 27 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW - seems an interstellar object may currently be on Earth - recent news^[1][2][3][4] may be of possible interest to some I would think - iac - Stay Safe and Healthy !! - Drbogdan (talk) 20:33, 9 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Given this recent news, does the first sentence of this article,

ʻOumuamua is the first known interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System.

need to be changed, since Oumuamua was detected in 2017 and the referenced meteorite struck the Earth in 2014?

Amolvaidya06 (talk) 21:19, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I went ahead and made the edit. Amolvaidya06 (talk) 21:28, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

BRIEF Followup - Updated the lede to the following => *ʻOumuamua is a known interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System.(+ref) It is possibly the second interstellar object known; the first being a purported interstellar meteor that impacted Earth in 2014.(+refs)" - seems better - comments welcome of course - in any case - Stay Safe and Healthy !! - Drbogdan (talk) 22:35, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]