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Avi Loeb: `Oumuamua is EXTRATERRESTRIAL (#307)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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The Acceleration of Comets

This change in speed of a moumoure was small compared to a typical comet moving in an elliptical orbit. Do they ever exhibit strange accelerations comparable to the orbit? This is coming from the rocket effect that when it's the same effect that is pushing rockets or jet planes, basically airplanes and I once did a calculation on a fly. So for small comets, you can get much more acceleration and it's noticeable. For very big course, you don't get that.

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