Modeling the light curve of `Oumuamua: evidence for torque and disc-like shape — mentioned by robocat

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 10:36:40 GMT

Here’s a 2019 preprint that concludes “We show that cigar-shaped models suffer from a fine-tuning problem and have only 16 per cent probability to produce light curve minima as deep as the ones present in `Oumuamua's light curve. Disc-shaped models, on the other hand, are very likely (at 91 per cent) to produce minima of the required depth.” https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.03696 So it seems like there is still a lot of conjecture involved... Yet the National Geographic article misleads by showing an artists impression (pictures are truthy) while treating the elongated shape as fact on every line…

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Modeling the light curve of `Oumuamua: evidence for torque and disc-like shape — mentioned by robocat