Mystery visitor

[Mugwump]

Astronomers around the world are trying to track down a small, fast-moving object that is zipping through our solar system.

Is a comet? An asteroid? NASA?s not sure. The space agency doesn?t even know where it came from, but it?s not behaving like the local space rocks and that means it may not be from our solar system.

If that?s confirmed, NASA says ?it would be the first interstellar object to be observed and confirmed by astronomers.?

?We have been waiting for this day for decades,? Paul Chodas, manager of NASA?s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, said in a NASA news release. ?It?s long been theorized that such objects exist ? asteroids or comets moving around between the stars and occasionally passing through our solar system ? but this is the first such detection. So far, everything indicates this is likely an interstellar object, but more data would help to confirm it.?

NASA says astronomers are pointing telescopes on the ground and in space at the object to get that data.

For now, the object is being called A/2017 U1. Experts think it?s less than a quarter-mile (400 meters) in diameter and it?s racing through space at 15.8 miles (25.5 kilometers) per second.

http://fox2now.com/2017/10/27/mystery-object-might-be-first-visitor-from-another-solar-system/

[Ron Sower]

...PREPARE FOR THE END OF THE EARTH...!

...JUDGMENT DAY IS UPON US ALL...!

...THE END IS NEAR...![/b][/i][/u][/b][/b][/i][/u][/size]

[waterboy]

Its no a Comet or an Asteroid, It is a spaceship from the next Galaxy over.  They heard our "I Love Lucy" broadcasts and came to investigate.

[Ron Sower]

 

Its no a Comet or an Asteroid, It is a spaceship from the next Galaxy over.  They heard our "I Love Lucy" broadcasts and came to investigate.

[Mugwump]

Its no a Comet or an Asteroid, It is a spaceship from the next Galaxy over.  They heard our "I Love Lucy" broadcasts and came to investigate.

.....or the 'Soupy Sales Show'....LOL

[BillT]

Sounds like Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama book, but it is too small an object.
His was a cylinder 50 km long.