UPDATED -- Dawn in Italy, on Tuesday 11.21.2017: I bumped this back up to the top. We could all use some happier-science infused ju ju, here. [End, updated portion.]
Let's just have the sublime ESO video do the 'splainin', shall we? [She's been named "Oumuamua", by her discoverers -- which translates from the native Hawaiian as "first arriving messenger, from afar".] Yes. . . let's. See below.
It is highly unlikely that this object will ever see her arc bend backward, and twist, toward our sun again -- she is passing through our lives but once. Like so many odd, yet preciously graceful, things. . . indeed.
. . . .Astronomers have recently studied an asteroid that has entered the Solar System from interstellar space. Observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile (and other observatories around the world) prove that this unique object was travelling through interstellar space for millions of years before its chance encounter with our star system. It appears to be a darkly reddish (red-bone!), highly-elongated, high-metal-content object. . . .
As ever -- the idea of a dusky metallic visitor -- from near the "time, before time". . . at least relative to our own local group. . . fires my imagination. No doubt (being a man of science, after all!), under this graceful, roughly Mount Blanc pen-shaped metal, are the vestiges of one or more timeless raindrops -- and under those raindrops, are the words -- and some of those words, are mine to you. Travel well -- and do travel light.
नमस्ते
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