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Avi Loeb: `Oumuamua is EXTRATERRESTRIAL (#307)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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The Role of the Web Telescope in Searching for Objects

It depends on the trajectory. If you assume that it came on a random trajectory, there should be an object like it every year coming into the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. You can reduce the number of objects by a factor of 10 to the 10 billion or so if you imagine that they were targeting the habitable zone. And we don't know. So we just need better statistics and hopefully the Verarubian Observatory will give us more examples.

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