It does, and that is beyond cool. But it's not the *only* model that can account for the behavior. Outgassing would work, for example. Yet we saw no sign at all of comet-like outgassing from the object. Hence the attempts to find another explanation.

On a purely subjective level, I adore the thought of this object being a piece of debris from some distant star system, the remnant of a shipwreck in space. It's rather like finding scraps of a ship on the beach; you can't help wanting to know the story of where she was from, who was sailing her, and how she was lost.

On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 11:50 AM Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:

Yah think? :-) Thing is, their model does account for the observed behavior of the object.

 

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On 11/6/18, 12:31 PM, "xxxxxx@simplelists.com on behalf of Sudnadja (via tml list)" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

 

that whole paper is very speculative 


On Nov 6, 2018, at 10:42 AM, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU> wrote:

http://spaceweather.com/ Interesting hypothesis about the recent flyby of the Oumuamua interstellar object; it might have been a light sail...and not one of ours.... https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.11490.pdf

 

 

Hmmmm....

 

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