An Interstellar Asteroid Just Flew Past Earth, Here’s What You Need to Know
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- In October, astronomers observed an interstellar asteroid for the first time. We talked to one of the first to study it, and here’s everything they’ve learned in the months since.
What’s Happening in Space? - • We’re STILL Not Saying...
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A brief visit from a red and extremely elongated interstellar asteroid
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“Here we report observations and subsequent analysis of 1I/2017 U1 (‘Oumuamua) that demonstrate the extrasolar trajectory of ‘Oumuamua. Our observations reveal the object to be asteroidal, with no hint of cometary activity despite an approach within 0.25 au of the Sun.”
The First Interstellar Object to Be Seen May Have Just Visited Our Solar System
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“Astronomers may have spotted the first comet or asteroid to visit from beyond the solar system. They’re now scurrying to aim telescopes at the object, provisionally called A/2017 U1, to learn more about its mysterious origins.”
Massive Asteroid ‘Florence' Flies Past Earth at Record-Breaking Nearness
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“A mountain-size space rock cruised past Earth this morning (Sept. 1) in a record-breaking encounter that has long had scientists drooling. At 8:06 a.m. EDT (1206 GMT) today, the roughly 2.7-mile-wide (4.4 kilometers) asteroid 3122 Florence came within a mere 4.4 million miles (7 million km) of Earth - just 18 times the distance from our planet to the moon.”
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It came to OUR Solar system without an invitation and didn't even say "hello".
*system
Nobody important rude
A quick hi and bye was enough, I don't think we'd like if it had popped in for tea.
raping asteroid
John Doe If an alien civilization had reached the technological point where they could actually intercept our "package", they would have the capability to come land on our planet. You have to keep in mind that our message hasn't gone very far on an astronomical scale. And it'd be extremely odd for them to think that we would interpret them sending a rock through our solar system as a response to our message. I know it's just a fun thought, but just not plausible.
you don't need to bait me with aliens, anything with space is my fuel
Same here 🙂
Same
Same
Same here. Haha
The reason behind their thumbnail choice may shock you. Click "Read More" to find out.
... You just couldn't resist, could you.
Does the alien's homeworld have Net Neutrality?
They're using IPFS.
If they do ima hop on that rocket the flattard made and ima go there
No they have dial up internet.
They don’t need it, they aren’t whiny progressives.
Aren't you the cool Secular Talk animator guy, nice to see you.
Bet aliens had a mining error and a piece drifted off.
Waiting for that guy on history channel to say "Aliens"
If an alien life form was able to travel to a different star, wouldn't they also probably be able to fool us to think that their spaceship is just an asteroid?
san. I thought the same but, hey I doubt it
Then it probably wouldn'd thumble and rotate like crazy
san. Why would they hide themselves. They know that they are why beyond us in everything. Likely by millions of years. Even if we were the first civilization's they came across.
Rick Canute just to observe us quietly. We're like an isolate tribe in a rainforest and they're modern people trying to let us be in peace
I definitely agree
The name of the asteroid reminds me of uvuvwevwevwe onyetenyevwe ugwemubwem ossas :D :D :D
My name is Joey the mayans named the asteroid.
God bless you.
Sounds like you’re trying to sound like kodack black
My name is Joey naija guy
My name is Joey hahaha
It's a scout ship and we have been discovered.
I used to be an orc but now I'm an astronaught redeemed not discovered, u ork lulz
God stfu
I used to be an orc but now I'm an astronaught .... great name dude and picture
yes start evacuation and prepare for ground assault
I traveled through time just to post this comment
Huge Alien Blunt!
Look like a giant terd lol
NASA needs to devote all their resources to capturing one of these "Space Fatties" and bringing it back to earth!
Smoking that shit would make you higher then boat gas.
lmao
Some very wise homeless woman told me that NASA means = Not A Straight Answer.. Probably because she got fired and she didn't know why..
Maybe it is a alien spaceship, that uses gravity from stars, in this case, our sun, to get speed and then travels to its destination.
Novatik that makes no sense
That's not unheard of :D
It makes perfect sence. Its called a slingshot manuver. Go check out a book called "Rendezvous with Rama". It about an event almost exactly like this.
Damon Richter Thats how we're going to get to mars.
no life can survive millions of years trough space without extrenal refillement
“Oumuamua” who tf names these asteroids? I want to know 😂😂
IAU I think
International astronomical union
shayan karimaghaei an African one
The name was supposed to be Obama, but the scientist just came from a root canal so his mouth still very numb.
Anime watchers I guess
Not aliens, but just as exciting... ", Errmm... Beg to differ.
Virakotxa I can't believe he said that. I hope he reads your comment, so he can realise how stupid that sounds.
Implying Mexicans are more exciting.
Darling Love lo somos vato!
walkin mn Como un gringo en Cancún, alienígena total!
ya , such bullshit.
I'm early
*x-files theme song plays*
くんらんす
Kunransu
くんらんす
BOOSTED BASS welp i fucked up my channel name badly
ランスLance。 Oh that's why
What if that was the first of many and there just happens to be an asteroid storm acomin?
LMAO.... There is ALWAYS big rocks flying past earth. Always has been, always will be.
There's really nothing we need to know about them. Except there always there.
#countryboycansurvive see that's where you're wrong
Sly Doe But he's not. The Earth has asteriods pass by all the time. Jupiter saves our ass all the time from really big ones.
#countryboycansurvive I don't think he just meant earth but the whole solar system. This asteroid could just be the first of many to pass through the solar system from the same event that sent this one our way.
What shocks me is that this big ass asteroid came from BELOW, then got pulled back down, MEANING that it had potential to collide twice with any of the planets... This could had hit earth 🌎 and we would had not even had much warning. Now I know WHY ELON MUSK wants to make us into a interplanetary species ASAP!
THIS IS WHY WE NEED TO BUILD THAT WALL
We can’t just have astroids coming into out solar system smh
Lmfao
Cesar Dedios stfu fool
Kibito Kai u really that useless u have nothing better to do than comment some stupid shit shut up u pathetic pile of trash
Cesar Dedios we will build a wall and make mars pay for it.
Said like a true libtard! Damn liberals have to bring politics into even science. Enough already!
I still really want it to be aliens though...
Qowkdjnd Xiwjsjd how would they tho? Like the amount of time and resources needed for a real life alien invasion would be unimaginable
Warren Register well the Aliens could be the Europeans, and we could be Native Americans during the 1400's.
My name is Joey. You might get your wish soon, Earthling.
It is aliens! It's a fact. The only way to prove that it wasn't is if aliens come and visit us then tell us that it wasn't them that flew past us in December 2017.
+Evolutionary Constationary
You seem to be the infantile one. What he says is realistic. If anyone can travel through space they must be way ahead of us scientifically. And probably morally to, not forgetting intelligence going by your post.
And, semi-literate
"This is one of the most funniest vids must watch funny ASF!!! MUST WATCH!!"
And I'm shocked that they say they look through space in search of possible threats and yet they missed this monster coming towards Earth.
Since it is small, moving faster than anything in our system, and crossing it straight through it isn't something you detect easily.
If science had the same budget as war and the military, we would have seen it coming years ago.
Ben Ghazi I agree with you
Larry Berry it is frightening. This stuff happens DAILY at varying distances from us, and all the while we pretend we are not at any risk.
i love this channel, an not to mention.. the video quality has just gotten amazing lately. GG
Did you know that our limited technology CAN NOT differentiate between an asteroid and an alien craft that could have any number of technological disparities from human crafts?
In other words, if you're familiar with the Mass Effect series, the collectors ship was embedded within rock and debris...
Meaning we still don't really know what it could hold.
Just food for thought.
Mikelis Brown they act like they know so much about it when in reality we don't know shit about it. Calculations can only do so much. They can't even determine how big it is or how it's rotating in space.
@Svbreezy25 - Come on then. You tell us......
@Mikelis Brown - Instead of food for thought where you're just making stuff up on the spot, concentrate on your spelling first; it's "cannot", not "can not".
d c Our science is nothing to the “real” truth. What we know about space could be all wrong.
@JTJWarrior Gamz - Come on then. Evidence please?
perfect trajectory and shape for an alien probe though... :)
Then why hasn't it penetrated my anus?
ursaltydog really? Think you just want your arse probed
I just knew there'd be a bunch of "anal" comments.. LOL Thanks for the laugh.. needed it today.. :)
gafeht Uranus*
gafeht Because it wasn't meant to go to uranus!
Aliens Master: Is the satellite in position?
Alien: Yes sir
Alien Master: Good, *observe* them carefully, we need to more about our new... *enemy*
Alien: Sir, they know we're here,should w-
Master: NO! They don't know it's a satellite, they won't or CAN'T do anything about it. Keep circling around this galaxy and analyse more
Izuki 101 i like it
Izuki 101 i like it
From *Aliens Master* to *Alien Master* to *Master*. Seems typing got you tired.
Izuki 101 , you mean keep circling around this SOLAR SYSTEM
Quality of this channel has drastically improved holy shit
NASA spokesperson says, "No aliens, and if there were we'd still say 'no aliens.'"
🎵 Flying rotating rock, amazing.
Need to build a plantary wall.
Although space is enormous, obviously, and therefore it can take an incredible amount of time for objects to travel, I still find it odd this is the first time we've seen something that had come from out of our solar system, that we know of.
...I was analyzing what is wrong with your glasses. The transparent ones doesn't suit you.
Dark colored frames will look much better.
His glasses look great.
G-A-Y... Gay yo KO!
Nice vid man!
Can we capture that astroid so we can study it and maybe it was a gift from another star to be discovered
AJ Alvarez no, it was moving too fast. I forget how many km/second, but even our fastest probes couldnt catch it. What slightly worries me, if astronomers are relying on reflected light to identify these objects, what if any notice would we have if a nearly non reflective object was heading towards us? I suspect very little, if any.
Can we communicate with it? Lol
Oumuamua made its closest pass by the sun on Sept. 9 and then zoomed within 15 million miles (24 million kilometers) of Earth on Oct. 14-about 60 times the distance from our planet to the moon. The object is now barreling toward the outer solar system at about 98,400 mph (158,360 km/h) relative to the sun, researchers have said.
0:22 OMUA MUA MOU SHINDEIU !!!
Flat-Earthers are gonna have a field day with this one.... flat asteroid=flat earth?
biobinladen what if our earth also spinning in one pole as its centre. We wouldnt know
“It’s not aliens”
There you go, the fermi paradox
Maybe we could be a bit more open-minded?
I mean, an alien spacecraft traveling that fast, should we even hypothesize based on our limited human capacity?
Rendezvous with Oumuamua
Thumbail: Aliens?
10 seconds later: It's not aliens... but it's still just as fantastic.
Aliens really wouldn't be THAT extraordinary given the vastness of the cosmos/time.
Now I wanna write a fanfic...
He store emptily out the opaque window of the cigar-shaped ship, monitors beeping around him as he watched thousands of stars zoom by, able to see for not even a second before they were behind them. His own reflection he could see on the window, along with red, green and white pale lights from behind him. A lot of numbers, morse and symbols, most of which he didn't even remember what they did because the ship did it itself also reflected on the opaque window.
"Alec?" A younger sounding voice echoed from the halls behind him, and as the lengthiness of the _Alec?_ faded away, he tilted his gaze to the window to see the reflection of her. Tammy, his younger starbound. "You look like one of those cliche people who start a movie."
Alec chuckled, returning his gaze to the window. For a second too long, all there was in the bridge was the constant sound of the beep letting them know the ship was working correctly. "I read too many books." Alec said.
"That's quite obvious." Tammy said, as he could hear her footsteps come closer to him. Alec twisted his head around to her quickly, his body still facing the mirror.
"What'd you come up for?"
"I was bored." Tammy said, her voice ringing hinted with nonchalantness, tiredness, and sarcasm.
Alec turned fully to her, sighing. "We're on a ship heading to who-knows-where, yet you're bored?"
Tammy merely nods.
"Go check the monitors again, the pills, all of that."
"Uh, we've checked them, like, a thousand times." Tammy said, and she leans against her back leg. "A thousand times in the last hour."
Alec scoffs. "Check them a thousand more in that case."
"You're no fun, Alec." Tammy pouts.
"Thanks for the compliment."
Tammy crosses her arms, as his eyes dart to a screen with their whereabouts on it.
"Oh, shit." Alec said, jumping off the levitated surface by the frame of the window.
Tammy's eyes glaze over, a habit Alec had picked up on when she's curious about something, as she uncrossed her arms while he runs to the same monitor that his eyes had darted to.
"Something wrong?" Tammy asks, quietly walking up behind him.
"We're running by Neptune in their solar system." Alec says, panicking.
"Fucksticks." Tammy says, jumping beside him to get a clear view of the monitor. "Like, the _human_ Neptune?"
"Pay attention in the Academy, won't you?" Alec hisses, frantically typing on the keys with morse on them.
Tammy rolls her eyes, but nods and turns to the monitor besides the one Alec was working on. "What should we do?"
"Turn off the engines."
"Say what now?"
"Turn. Them. Off, or else I'll turn you in to the humans myself."
Tammy hisses at him, and starts typing on the keyboard, while Alec hurriedly taps away on the whereabouts screen. "I'll lock up the sirens and doors, while you get the commands. Remember not to kill the-"
"Life mode, and turn on drift, yeah I get it." Tammy says.
Alec nods and turns away, typing four last digits on the monitor before dashing off into the hallway.
He runs into the second room on his left, a metal door which had opened to his body weight and quick facial passcode, and sprints to the largest monitor in the dark room. The room had a large floor-to-ceiling window with monitors in the walls to both sides of him.
Alec taps a few digits into the monitor and runs back to the bridge, his speed coming in useful.
"Turned everything off?"
"Yep, we're passing by Saturn now, gravity will be killed in a second or two, so will temperature and radiation. Drift is coming on now," Tammy says, diving to the ground.
"Get ready for it..."
Alec dives to the ground beside her, just in time as the ship suddenly lurches upward, then downward. His metallic arm sticks to the floor, which avoids him from floating up in the air. Tammy latches herself to the floor using a dagger in her boot. The ship shakes again, then lurches to the side.
Alec hisses under his breath, "Damn space winds..."
This continues for a small amount of time, before the ship evens itself out, using a mechanic to keep the bridge steady, yet keep the exterior of the ship spinning.
Tammy opens her mouth to speak, but shuts it quickly.
Alec shuts his eyes, pressing a finger to his temple, putting himself into a 48 hour sleep without thinking twice.
it looks like a giant joint and I wanna smoke it maaan
Damian Kuik Interstellar OG
It's Mr. Hankey the Christmas Asteroid!
I die when he says "Oumuamua"
Mediocre Musician
I die when you play that thing in your pic
The Legend34 haha fair enough
This really makes me wonder, how many interstellar objects are traveling through our solar system at once? If we almost missed this, just imagine how many have passed by us within the past couple years lol
We should develop highly resistant, microscopic life forms that can exist on these types of objects. Then use them to send our form of life (that is life based on our type of DNA structure) to the rest of the Galaxy.
What if the rest of the galaxy objects, and starts sending their forms of life to us?
NelC its a microbe eat microbe universe out there, we are already at war. You think its gonna be like Star Trek, a bunch of virtue signalling Libtards, out doing good deeds. Give your head a shake. Design the nastiest, most virulent little beasties and send them out there. As for the rest of the galaxy, if they have any sense they will be doing the same.
Judge Morville hey there not liberals, everything changed with warp drive, money pretty much came. Almost obselite (still exist but can't do much with it) with the replicator b4 u make an ass of ur self actually watch star trek
Damon Richter You talk about Star Trek as though it is real, its just a show (One that I love to watch by the way), it is a fiction. As for them not being Libtards, they are the epitome of liberal idealism.
Judge Morville or we can get nano cameras because the life forms wont speak english theyll speak "gerbsk chat dnxj" :|
It's the Mon Calamari cruiser from star wars
I love Star Trek.
I h8 Pheminasi Trek.
Me too
what are you fucking gay
Could more come from the same direction? Are we able to see if more are on the way?
What truly baffles me is how folks believe there's a higher probability for it being an alien rather than a regular asteroid. There are so many billions upon billions upon billions (and so forth) of asteroids in the universe. And we haven't even discovered alien microorganisms yet. The chance of discovering intelligent life or anything made by it (other than ourselves) is so minimal that it can't really be comprehended.
Link We will never discover intelligent life out there. Not in our life time at least. If they do exist, they might discover us
Yeah, I guess.
What you mean we haven't discovered them yet? There are sightings all over the world!!! And the governments not gunner come out with the truth because it'll send people into a panic state
I love the top Dr Karen is wearing it fits perfectly with this topic of asteroids and trajectories.
This was aliens
WE
The Gypsy King what do you mean by alien?
I knew it survived. It's still operational... Too bad that anyone trying to get in will be killed instantly. Drift until I need you again. You are missed.
As she says in the video: "If you're going to say it's something extraordinary, you better have extraordinary proof".
James Mitchells wtf😂😂
Legend says it's Cybertron heading it's way towards Earth or should I say "unicron"
DNews was on that rock.
The story just reminds me of A.C.Clarke's Rendezvous With Rama. A huge alien spaceship passed through the Solar System and not only they did not notice humanity, they absolutely didn't care about searching for our potential existence.
I didn’t think you guys would submit to “click bait”
What about this is click bait? The title is "An Interstellar Asteroid Just Flew Past Earth" which is exactly what it is about.
Ryan Kunst you omitted the part where ‘aliens?’ In the thumbnail
The thumbnail just says "Alien?", which it is. It is in fact an alien object. You are confusing "Alien" with meaning "Alien Life".
You just proved my point. Post people would assume that by 'alien?' they were implying alien life.
They did talk about the possibility of it being an Alien craft in the video, so I still don't see how it is clickbait.
If any of our outward bound probes ventured near an alien civilization, there would be no 'sudden deviation' of its course. I agree that this asteroid is almost certainly a natural phenomena. But to use 'no sudden deviation of its course' to disqualify it as alien seems short-sighted.
Thank you for so many likes
Hope I get more
Amazing MATRYOSHKA lol
😂liked
You got 22... in what perspective is that a lot in any way?
It would be interesting if we eventually managed to find out that it was an object intentionally sent on a targeted path that used our sun to either change it's direction or give it a boost so that it could eventually impact on a specific target. All of this would require a super intelligent extra terrestrial species with the capabilities to re-direct an object of that size and a reason to actually do it, of course.
Alien spaceship doing a gravity assist?
"Earth astronomers didn't even know it was there until it passed the sun already"
Damn, that's kind of scary. What if this had been heading for Earth? We would've barely had any notice!
That's a giant alien's poop !!!!!!
Dhaval Bane *autistic screech*
Das Sir :: Error reply has been deleted !
James Mitchells and that too missed its mark , lol
thumbnail: alien?
5 seconds into the video: it wasnt alien!
Hey, I am early!
thats an accomplishment for a snail
The scary thing is that it passed pretty close to Earth and we didn't even see it coming. If its course intersected ours there's nothing we could have done about it.
* Aliens zoom in looking for intelligent life... pick up a Trump speech on approach... pull out the big *NO INTELLIGENCE HERE* stamp, and zoom out of the solar system again *
New Message y? Trump is the only person who stands for the people amidst of. All the corruption,
That was very nearly a sentence. Try again.... only this time, crack the 'Russian to English' dictionary first.
New Message How About You Say Something Intelligent Instead Of Cluttering The Comments
I was waiting for a science experiment with those goggles on
It looks like a giant piece of shit
India's mission to Mars was all about slingshots.. So saying that just cause this thing took a sling shot around our sun doesn't make it intelligent is a hypothetical statement 😉
There's nothing new to know..
those safety goggles will deflect any oumuamua.
And you know its not aliens because......?
It has no visible means of propulsion and doesn't emit anything a spacecraft would.
Aliens said lets just cruise at the sun's pull and watch as the sun burns up, sounds like a romantic stroll in the park for them😂
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It would have been awesome to get a sample of it to test composition.
And this is interesting:
The name comes from Hawaiian ʻoumuamua, meaning "scout",[16] (from ʻou, meaning "reach out for", and mua, reduplicated for emphasis, meaning "first, in advance of"[3]) and reflects the way this object is like a scout or messenger sent from the distant past to reach out to us.[3][17] The first character is a Hawaiian ʻokina, not an apostrophe, and is represented by a single quotation mark and pronounced as a glottal stop; the name was chosen by the Pan-STARRS team[18] in consultation with Kaʻiu Kimura and Larry Kimura of the University of Hawaii at Hilo.[19]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBOumuamua
Military 'scouts' are often sent ahead of invading forces...
Funny how these interstellar objects come flying by while the universe expands faster than the speed of light.
Darling Love universe expands about 67 kilometers per second. The speed of light 299792 kilometers per second.
Christian Medina Thank you for enlightening the pleb
Christian Medina The number you mention looks a lot like the Hubble constant (which is probably somewhat higher), 73,2 kilometer per second per megaparsec measured a couple years ago I think. That means for every megaparsec the universe expands by that much, but the universe is bigger than one megaparsec and expands faster than the speed of light in total.
Clorox Bleach When you come in from the sideline and mock people without being able or even trying to add value it makes you stand out as what you like to call others. Even if I had been wrong it wouldn't have changed a thing. I suggest that in the future you be careful what you call others so it won't backfire on you.
you guys need to do seeker stories about hypersonics and re entry technology. shock tunnels and hyper-velocity tunnels.
when she said less than 2 weeks i was like oh... i was thinking 5 hours or something lol
According to the science of South Park, the Earth is now protected from intergalactic objects by cubical force field.
This thing instantly proves our inability to visit even nearby earth space to grab such objects or even to have small piece of it to study more!!
First object we have seen coming to us from outside our solar system. This is astonishing.
This is in fact a mon calamari cruiser. True fact.
you know, Arthur C. Clarke wrote a story about this exact same situation. Rama, a very large, elongated foreign object, just passing thru our solar system, with a very small window of opportunity to scientifically investigate it, was assumed to be an asteroid also. but it turned out to be a huge cylinder shaped thing made by aliens.
Wow!! You found a rock in space! Good job guys!!👍🏼
I believe it got sucked into a wormhole and some type of heat was applied and warped it
Just wait until they realize that is the first and tiniest piece of ejecta hurtling towards us from another cosmic annihilation.
there is probably a new element we have not yet discoverd that would change all our lives
hopefully we do have then a moon-station, a moon-observatory and can hopefully mention objects before they get close.
If an alien comes here on Earth I'll play "Welcome to my house"
What is really terrifying about this event is that astronomers have no capacity to detect objects like this one and if i am not mistaken, the woman said, they only had the opportunity to observe it the moment it was very near/fying away from the sun.
Ofcourse, when an object is too far from a star, not to mention its size, it cannot be seen even by a very sophisticated telescope.
Now, what if an asteroid like this is heading towards earth?
Can we do something or although we have the technology, will we be like the dinosaurs?
Collision among heavenly bodies occurs astronomically rare; ofcourse, there are, i think, 90% or so empty space in the universe. Nonetheless, still, it could happen.
Good thing it wasn't be going straight toward us. Wouldn't have known until last second.
Please make a episode about objects u can see that pass through or stay still or how big they are
I have a question .. Will it come back ? I saw that he returned like 180* does he have a circular trajectory?
the point is we didn't knew about this one ...... we don't know if more on the way
So how long did it take to go through our solar system?
What about scanning it's historical path for other objects. If it was ejected from its source position by a collision, it may be that there are more pieces accompanying it....perhaps?
“I’m sorry Dnews I’m afraid I can’t allow you to discover me”
guy:it is an asteroid.
me:close tab
I find it weird how they always dismiss aliens like we know everything about them or what their vehicles look like
It not deviating from it's path is a horrible reason as to why it wasn't an alien ship . If they were going a long distance they wouldn't want to chance their plotted out course. They would move in whatever predestined line they chose. Just send signals to it, dang.
There was that Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Masks," with an object that was originially thought to be a comet but turned out to be a library constructed by a long-dead civilization.
Make sure what ever you find there, stays there
2017 and I'm still waiting for extraterrestrial life to come and say beeb beeb blub blub! hello humans