'Oumuamua 2

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-galileo-project.html.
Astronomers have detected a third interstellar object in our solar system. Following our brief encounter with 'Oumuamua, see background links above and below, and 2/I Borisov, which turned out to be a comet, telescopes have been scanning the sky for other objects from beyond the sun's influence. Now they know what signs to look for this has become easier. (Avi Loeb is one of the pioneers of the methodology that has given the astronomy community this hat-trick. Does this mean they will apologize for ridiculing him now?) This new arrival has been given a typically perfunctory astronomical name: A11pl3Z. I'm not sure what those letters and numbers mean, but people have started pronouncing it "All Please". This name might stick or it might be granted a new catchier name, depending on how significant it turns out to be. All Please has a "hyperbolic" velocity and trajectory that indicates it originates from interstellar space and is not in orbit around the sun like the earth and other planets are. Once it has passed through the solar system it will fly away back into deep space never to return... assuming its course does not change in an anomalous way like 'Oumuamua's did. Not much more information can be gathered about All Please at this point in time. It's discoverers at the ATLAS network, a group of telescopes in Hawaii, Chile and southern Africa, say they are not sure whether it is an asteroid or comet. They are certainly not speculating whether it might be... anything else! At the moment it has no visible tail, although it is currently a long way from the sun, just inside the orbit of Jupiter. Initial reports that it had a marginal coma were later dismissed. If it is a comet it will develop a tail as it approaches the sun and warms up. It is bigger than 'Oumuamua, about twelve miles in diameter, although its dimensions are based on brightness versus the average reflective factor of natural objects, which is far from certain at this point. It is moving very rapidly, at about thirty-six miles-per-second. At its current speed it will reach perihelion, its closest approach to the sun, on the 29th of October. It will not come closer than 1.8 astronomical units from the Earth. It will come very close to Mars, just 0.189 AU. (An AU is the average distance between the earth and sun.) This will happen on the 19th of December. Unlike previous interstellar objects, All Please is flying close to the plane of the ecliptic, matching other planets and objects in orbit; but this is not an indication of any solar origin. If you want to see All Please it is currently just to the north of Sagittarius; however, with a magnitude of 18.2 you'd need a very big telescope to see it. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/new-interstellar-object-candidate-heading-toward-the-sun-a11pl3z/.

As usual, the skeptics have started downplaying the excitement many of us are feeling about the arrival of All Please with their usual sadistic smugness. One person commented: "It's just a giant rock people. Cool it!" I asked this person how he knew. If he does then he is literally the only person in the world who is currently a hundred percent sure what All Please is. This is a typical skeptic false certainty. They are just guessing based on the most likely possibility; they do not know for sure. It's a very dishonest way to portray themselves. If All Please grows a tail and appears obviously to be a comet I'll be the first to admit it, but what is it doesn't? What if executes powered manoeuvres like 'Oumuamua did? It might do so closer to the earth. It might even stop and visit us. Imagine how exciting that would be! For some people it will be a very fearful moment, but I'll be thrilled. If it doesn't then All Please will pass within 0.35 AU of Jupiter on the far side of the solar system and disappear out into space. Even if that happens and it turns out not to be of artificial manufacture, it would be a great idea to send a rocket up to study All Please. I'm not sure if this is possible with such short notice; or maybe the government is afraid of what they might find.  
See here for more background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2025/07/interstellar-object-portal.html.