{"id":92961,"date":"2019-07-01T14:05:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T21:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/astronomers-have-analysed-claims-oumuamuas-an-alien-ship-and-its-not-looking-good"},"modified":"2019-07-01T14:05:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T21:05:49","slug":"astronomers-have-analysed-claims-oumuamuas-an-alien-ship-and-its-not-looking-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/astronomers-have-analysed-claims-oumuamuas-an-alien-ship-and-its-not-looking-good","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Have Analysed Claims \u2018Oumuamua\u2019s an Alien Ship, And It\u2019s Not Looking Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-have-analysed-claims-oumuamuas-an-alien-ship-and-its-not-looking-good2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interstellar object \u2018Oumuamua \u2014 that strange, cigar-shaped chunk of rock from somewhere a vast distance beyond the Solar System \u2014 is, new research has concluded, absolutely, positively not an alien spaceship.<\/p>\n<p>OK, well, probably not. We can\u2019t tell for sure without closely examining the thing, and it\u2019s passed beyond our reach now. But, after carefully reviewing all our observations of the object, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.issibern.ch\/teams\/1ioumuamua\/\">international team of \u2018Oumuamua scientists<\/a> has concluded that everything we know about it is consistent with a natural origin.<\/p>\n<p>We already mostly knew this. But a paper last year from Harvard astrophysics <em>enfant terrible<\/em> Avi Loeb briefly suggested the possibility that the rock <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-harvard-study-suggests-weird-interstellar-object-oumuamua-could-be-an-alien-solar-sail\">was an alien probe<\/a>. It was like a spark to dry tinder, honestly, and other scientists have been running around with buckets ever since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interstellar object \u2018Oumuamua \u2014 that strange, cigar-shaped chunk of rock from somewhere a vast distance beyond the Solar System \u2014 is, new research has concluded, absolutely, positively not an alien spaceship. OK, well, probably not. We can\u2019t tell for sure without closely examining the thing, and it\u2019s passed beyond our reach now. But, after carefully [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}