Finding Interstellar Visitors Flying Through The Solar System

Fraser Cain
Fraser Cain
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Published 2024-07-17
Oumuamua and Borisov were the first interstellar visitors found by humanity. There should be many more of them. How can we find it and what will it mean for Astronomy? Finding out the answers.

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00:00 Intro
01:52 Oumuamua and Borisov
12:30 Interstellar meteorites
19:22 How are interstellar objects born
27:53 Better detection methods
34:40 Missions to interstellar objects
42:53 Active asteroids
56:07 Current obsessions
01:00:05 Final thoughts

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All Comments (21)
  • @cittaaukoto_japan9926
    Fraser Cain is one of the best astronomical journalists around. He knows enough to ask the questions that get interesting responses from scientists to us interested laypeople.
  • @galaxia4709
    Thank you Fraser, for giving us astronomy content during the summer!!
  • @jeffnewcomb601
    Oort cloud and interstellar comets are amazing. Nice. Give us back our 9th planet.
  • @ilkoderez601
    This was a really good interview. I learned a lot. Thank you!
  • @isaacplaysbass8568
    I'm going to have to save this for tomorrow! Looking forward to it. Thank you Frasier.
  • @billcade2137
    Thanks to both Frasier and Dr. David for a very educational and interesting topic.
  • @glennscott8622
    Fantastic! The “stuff” between us and Proxima is my favorite topic in astronomy.
  • @jballaviator
    Given the proximity of star formation in stellar nurseries it's not unreasonable to think many stars have overlapping envelopes of influence. Frost lines be damned when we're talking about double, triple stars, stellar nurseries, supernova. Too much energy and too many wildcards. How close would oh say Alpha Centauri's double star system have to be to shed an Oumuamua sized object or even a Triton sized object. Is it possible we're swapping them now at 4 LY? Do these envelops grow exponentially with star mass or does it scale linearly?