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

https://avi-loeb.medium.com/oumuamua-was-not-a-hydrogen-water-iceberg-1dd2f7a6107f Looks like the hydrogen theory is bust, so to my knowledge it looks like pretty much every proposed explanation for what this thing was has been shot down. — Insertcleverphrasehere^{(or here)_{(or here)(or here)}} 19:39, 21 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Loeb has a conflict of interest because his funding for his pet project requires everything being aliens. He is becoming the Rudy Giuliani of astronomy. -- Kheider (talk) 12:58, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That's putting it VERY politely, Kheider :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.6.182.106 (talk) 14:14, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The closest approach distance in AU is currently listed as 0.1618 AU (24,200,000 km; 15,040,000 mi). The source of that is a web pages which list the closest approach as "24,000,000 km" or "15,000,000 mi" https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/news/a28958/first-interstellar-object-gets-a-name/ and those figures would result in 0.1604 AU or 0.1613 AU, not 0.1618 AU. The extra 200,000 km or 40,000 mi in those figures has been chosen by someone to make the closest approach match the Golden ratio to 4 significant figures. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lamontcg (talk • contribs) 17:19, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see that the linked JPL database has the closest approach to Earth at the bottom listed as "0.16175 AU" which I've updated this page to have that value, since that is authoritative and the significant figures are supported by the uncertainty that the JPL data indicates. Lamontcg (talk) 17:30, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

JPL listed the closest approach as 0.16174 to 0.16177 au. -- Kheider (talk) 20:02, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Elsewhere on Wiki, the initial character of the name is called an ʻokina ; it's not a diacritic, but an unicameral (no "capital" form) letter. Using the UNICODE character \x02BB (in HTML,『& #x02bb ;』without the spaces ; decimal 699) is recommended in preference to apostrophes, back-ticks or other approximations. Since Wiki can handle this, it's what should be used. Most of the rest of Hawai&#x0288ian script is Latin/ Roman characters. And yes, that is an ʻokina in both『ʻokina』and "Hawaiʻi". (I only just found this out myself.)

AKarley (talk) 22:36, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]