{"id":22456,"date":"2023-03-28T11:28:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T18:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/?p=22456"},"modified":"2023-03-29T20:55:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T03:55:31","slug":"was-oumuamua-nothing-more-than-a-comet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/2023\/03\/28\/was-oumuamua-nothing-more-than-a-comet\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Oumuamua Nothing More Than A Comet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARABNORMAL NEWS &#8212; The debate continues over <a href=\"https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/asteroids-comets-and-meteors\/comets\/oumuamua\/in-depth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oumuamua<\/a>, the 1,300&#8242; long body from space that entered the solar system in 2017, the first ever to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Chemist <a href=\"https:\/\/chemistry.berkeley.edu\/faculty\/chem\/bergner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jennifer Bergner<\/a> from the University of California, Berkeley and Astronomer <a href=\"https:\/\/astro.cornell.edu\/darryl-seligman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Darryl Seligman<\/a> of Cornell University believe they have the explanation. Theorized to be everything from an asteroid to alien probe, they landed on a comet as the most likely explanation. However, not an ordinary one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn every way we expected these interstellar comets to behave, Oumuamua just acted exactly the opposite. So, it was a complete mystery from the very beginning,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6OLZK2UBPwQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seligman said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to modeling, the researchers say that Oumuamua could have been a regular water-rich comet around a nearby star before it was ejected and high-energy cosmic rays turned a portion of its water ice into hydrogen, trapping it as it traveled through interstellar space. The heat of the sun would have released the hydrogen, giving the object speed.<\/p>\n<p>It was discovered in October of 2017 by the University of Hawaii\u2019s Pan-STARRS1 telescope.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2023\/03\/first-known-interstellar-interloper-resembles-dark-comet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First known interstellar interloper resembles \u2018dark comet\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theorized to be everything from an asteroid to alien probe, researchers Jennifer Bergner and Darryl Seligman landed on a comet as the most likely explanation. However, not an ordinary one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1301,1067],"class_list":["post-22456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-comet","tag-oumuamua"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/news-oumuamua-comet.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22459,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22456\/revisions\/22459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}