seen farmers in overalls and flannel shirt, muddy shoes and needing a shave, walk in and buy a new major farm implement, and pay $100,000+ in cash.
>Oumuamua
Oumuamua showed no signs of having a coma, but did exhibitnon‑gravitational acceleration.
translation: it had a propulsion system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBOumuamua
let me rephrase… at the point of its closest approach, it passed 23,000,000 miles from the sun. about the same as the orbit of mercury. depends on what you call "almost hit the sun head on."
Which did 2017 U1 come closer to 'almost hitting'?
sun - 23 million mi
earth - 33 million mi
(not at the same time)
>the sun would have had to capture it
akshully… given its velocity, it would have had to literally hit the sun directly head on.
otherwise it would have shot past, albeit with a radically different trajectory, even if it had passed within a few tens of THOUSANDS of miles.