VERY STRANGE OBJECT FOUND AT THE EDGE OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM - Bizarre!

A very strange object indeed and with a weird rotation to boot.
Could it be a disabled alien ship?

Oct 4 2011

Spinning hourglass object may be the first of many to be discovered in the Kuiper belt

:Strangeobject:

The bizarre, hourglass-shaped Kuiper belt object 2001QG298 spins round like a propeller as it orbits the Sun, according to an astronomer from Queens University Belfast. The discovery that the spinning object is tilted at nearly 90 degrees to the ecliptic plane is surprising, and suggests that this type of object could be very common in the Kuiper belt. The finding will be presented by Dr Pedro Lacerda at the Joint Meeting of the European Planetary Science Congress and the Division for Planetary Sciences in Nantes, France, on 3 October 2011.

More here [link to www.physorg.com]

No. No aliens have been proven to exist. Any so-called alien-looking tech is our own planet's government's work.

No. No aliens have been proven to exist. Any so-called alien-looking tech is our own planet's government's work.

Queen's University - my old alma mater! I did actually study astrophysics there (though that guy wasn't a teacher back in the late '90s). Shame I was also studying the campus tottie, and the price of a pint of Harp, and ended up pissing away my time there, or I may have been able to be involved in this discovery.

I made myself sad now.

Beer and hotties VS academia.... the great college dichotomy.

You are not alone. Cheers! hehehe

Cheers, indeed, mate!

Aye, went from astrophysics to the student bar, to missing an exam. Tried chemistry and pissed that away too, ran out of money and therefore had to quit while I was ahead and get a 'real' job.

I would have had a Ph.D by now if the drinking age in the UK was 30 . . .

Kinda glad I didn't become an accountant. Became a pro musician instead. Worked out for me.

Any time not spent drinking in uni was spent listening to and playing music.

Ironically, I now work in accounting, albeit not as an actual accounant per se.

They cannot resolve it with a telescope a sit is far to far away. Pluto only appears as a dot of a few pixels even with the hubble telescope.

They gave inferred the objects shape by the oscillation of its brightness. It is just two roundish lumps of rock that under gravity have come together and become one object. However the combined gravity was not large enough to form one new spherical shape as tends to happen with any object over a few hundred (3-4 hundred) kilometers in diameter.

The article does not say the objects size. In part they cannot tell (as it cannot be resolved) without knowing how reflective it is and how bright you would expect it to be. But since it is not a sphere it is bound to be under 300 kilometers in diameter or so.

how can they get good images of galaxies light years away from hubble yet they cant get anything other than pixels of something much closer?

That is a good question.
Probably has something to do with optics and what said telescope was made for.

A very strange object indeed and with a weird rotation to boot.
Could it be a disabled alien ship?

Oct 4 2011

Spinning hourglass object may be the first of many to be discovered in the Kuiper belt

:Strangeobject:

The bizarre, hourglass-shaped Kuiper belt object 2001QG298 spins round like a propeller as it orbits the Sun, according to an astronomer from Queens University Belfast. The discovery that the spinning object is tilted at nearly 90 degrees to the ecliptic plane is surprising, and suggests that this type of object could be very common in the Kuiper belt. The finding will be presented by Dr Pedro Lacerda at the Joint Meeting of the European Planetary Science Congress and the Division for Planetary Sciences in Nantes, France, on 3 October 2011.

More here [link to www.physorg.com]

any idea on how big it is?