Crash Course: A new paper says 'Oumuamua was a comet, not an alien spacecraft. Not everyone agrees

A new article redraws the scientific debate over the origin and properties of our first interstellar visitor [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmA_zHP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvZ2VnYjg3djlpYi8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXh6M2N4NWQxN3VXA3NwY0IKZArIdyFkFYWbl1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmA_zHP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvdXdmYnA1Y2w5Ny8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXh6M2N4NWQxN3UmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZArIdyFkFYWbl1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). A new paper says 'Oumuamua was a comet, not an alien spacecraft. Not everyone agrees Bergner and Darryl Seligman, a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University, were curious to run the numbers to figure out if perhaps 'Oumuamua was the leftover of a comet that was exposed to cosmic radiation, and which then released hydrogen trapped in its ice-water shield. 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