Oumuamua, the first known interstellar visitor to our solar system, is a dust bunny

By PoreLab18 November, 2019Popular science presentation

Professor Eirik Flekkøy from PoreLab University of Oslo explains the nature of Oumuamua under Popular Science. Read the article here:

https://www.popsci.com/story/space/oumuamua-not-aliens-maybe-dust/

Oumuamua may be made of a fine web of dust rather than rock or ice.ESO/M. Kornmesser

More articles about Oumuamua available here:

Interesting Engineering: https://interestingengineering.com/scientists-rule-out-aliens-as-the-explanation-for-oumuamua

Newshub: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/11/interstellar-visitor-oumuamua-just-gets-stranger-and-stranger.html

And in French: https://eost.unistra.fr/actualites/actualite/article/et-maintenant-les-moutons-dans-lespace-de-poussiere/

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