Last week, some scientists of Harvard University have done the hype in the media, saying about the possible alien origin of the mysterious interstellar object known as Omwamwi. Scientists have presented the “exotic” scenario, according to which Omwamwi can be “fully functioning probe, sent to Earth by an alien civilization”. But now, thanks to some previously unpublished observations by NASA, we have, apparently, to abandon the idea.
The fact that in November of 2017, when NASA sent its space telescope “Spitzer” in the search Omului, the Agency found nothing in the two months of observations in the infrared part of the spectrum.
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“Omwamwi was full of surprises from the first day, so we wanted to see what could show “Spitzer,” says David Trilling, the lead author of a new study detailing these observations, and Professor of astronomy at Northern Arizona University. “The fact that Omwamwi was too small to detect a “Spitzer”, is actually very important.”
The fact that the inability to detect the object sets an upper limit on its size. Although the interstellar intruder, believed to be long cigar-shaped object, the model used by astronomers based on data from the “Spitzer”, given estimates of the diameter of the object as if it were spherical. And the upper limit of the “spherical diameter” of the asteroid is from 100 to 440 meters.
The small size of the asteroid supports the theory degassing — when frozen gases are heated near the Sun and fading, as if nudging an asteroid and flying it. It accelerated away from the Sun has been a mystery for astronomers. In the absence of other evidence that one theory seems more plausible than a visit to an alien probe.
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