Adam Hibberd
Those of you who have been following my Project Lyra blogs know that I have over the past year or so done some extensive analysis of 'Oumuamua's trajectory. You may refer to previous posts on the i4is website to get an understanding of exactly what I have been up to, or alternatively continue reading below.
'Oumuamua was, as most of you know by now, the first interstellar object (ISO) to be observed passing through our Solar system, and a very peculiar beast it was too.
Its trajectory was calculated accurately as it was observed passing by Earth, and its brighness diminshed with increasing distance until even the Hubble Space Telescope could observe it no more.
You will probably also know of the non-gravitational force that was measured by a more refined determination of its orbital path, which can be found written up in this paper here.
I decided to go beyond this and look at the trajectory from a wider view-point. Was there anything at all unusual in the orbit 'Oumuamua followed suggestive of some kind of pattern, or even intention?
The results surprised me somewhat and they may also surprise you. Hence to save you the trouble of reading all my previous posts on the subject, I recorded a presentation for my YouTube channel which summarises the whole investigation. It can be found here: