[“Over a year later, ‘Oumuamua has given up some of its secrets. First suspected of being an asteroid, the shifts recorded in its trajectory suggest that it was shooting out gas jets as it approached the Sun, indicating that it’s more of a comet – though one so coated with organic molecules that it’s a very asteroid-like comet.” – from a news report]
Gas jets? (To navigate with?) Shifts in its trajectory? Organic molecules? Next it’s going to broadcast “Hello? Hello? Well shit, I guess there’s nobody in this backwater either! – on to the next!”
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