The Tale of the Interstellar Visitor
Tumble Science Podcast for Kids
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The Knot, the Director of the Nortic Optical Telescope
Every telescope he could think of on earth was looking at it. But Jane and dave wanted their own images, so they went to a university in Norway. They asked the director if they could use his observatory's huge optical telescope. He agreed, and jane and dave were on to the chase. So what happened? First thing was to figure out muamua's weird orbit. Its orbit cannot be explained by the usual gravitational forces. Then does something else? The easiest explanation was that it was a comet.
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