Why Was 'Oumuamua Different Than Other Space Rocks Orbiting Inside Our Solar System?
We cannot emphasize enough the importance of this information. It is too easy to quickly forget something as important as the discovery of the first interstellar traveler to enter the inner solar system. The information discussed in this episode covers how our guest was critical to the story of 'Oumuamua. Being one of the astronomers on site made it possible for her to receive the first reports of data that proved to be a new, highly interesting, object with origins that take it outside of our own solar system. To date there had not been an observation like this. Even though astronomers and astrophysicists had theorized the probabilities, there had not been an object that came from outside our solar system Like 'Oumuamua.
It came in moving at 26,000 MPS (miles per SECOND!) and it wasn't discovered until it had already made its close approach to the Sun meaning that it was already moving away from us and not toward us. The scientific community was not left with an enormous amount of time to observe the new object. It had many peculiarities about it that we are still trying to understand. I have more scientists coming on to give us reports on the latest research that, while not investigating 'Oumuamua directly, has implications for understanding what it could be and what we should expect in the future if it was indeed alien technology.
Being a new, previously unknown object, designating, classifying, and naming the object was immediate requirement. How we ended up with 'Oumuamua is important. I believe that this could be one of those opportunities to reveal truth in a way that it reveals the truth, but it offsets the importance by omission. I promise to continue to follow up and correlate new and existing information to bring this research full circle before the truth turns bad..
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Karen J. Meech is an astronomer and astrobiologist who investigates how habitable worlds form and explores the questions of whether there is life on other planetesimals, rocky or cometary bodies other than Earth.
Astrobiologist Karen J. Meech uses the pieces of information gleaned from observations of our solar system. She researches how a cometary object's formation can help us to understand how habitable planets are made. Her curiosity about life beyond earth was inspired as a child watching science fiction shows on TV. Meech has a PhD in planetary physics from MIT. She is now an astronomer at the University of Hawaii, where she leads the astrobiology group, and she is passionate about being a scientist and an educator.
Meech started her astronomy career researching comets. Comets are the icy leftovers from the birth of our solar system and solar systems outside our own. Her work led to an understanding of many of the processes that cause a comet tail to develop far from our Sun. She was co-investigator on three comet missions. Her discoveries provide information that test our understanding of how planetary systems assembled. Her work embraces the power of interdisciplinary science, and she combines geological field work, geochemistry, astronomical observations, theory and space mission concepts to address fundamental questions about how earth got its water.
