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#154 – Avi Loeb: Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Unusual Properties of Umoa-Moa
The object has an unusual geometry. It's at least a factor of a few more than any of the comets or asteroids that we have seen before. And it actually the best fit to the light curve that we saw was of a flat object. Unlike all the cartoons that you have seen of a cigar shape, a flat object at the 90% confidence gives a better model for the way that the light varied. The speed of space telescope really searched very deeply for carbon-based molecules. There was nothing. So it's definitely not a comet the way people expected it to be.
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