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Bizarre 'asteroid' with a TAIL of gas spotted orbiting the Sun at the same distance as Jupiter turns out to be a alien spaceship comet 'in disguise'
2020-06-02
Posted by:Skidmark

#4  All the better. This year, Rama would be front page for like a week.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-06-02 11:05  

#3  Scientists have found over the years the line between comet and asteroid is blurry if not movable as hell. Just depends how much material can gas off the rock and how close it is to the sun for said gas to out gas.
Posted by: DarthVader   2020-06-02 09:20  

#2  Should have seen it coming, I meant to say.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-06-02 08:59  

#1  Yes, we should have seen the debacle of Chinavirus "science" when astronomers started talking about "inhabitable, Earth-like" planets so many hundreds of light years away that they cannot actually be seen, but can be "inferred" to exist with almost God-like certainty. Because cool and media attention and sh*t...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-06-02 08:59  

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