Just wondering if Seti@Home is putting all of it's effords to unraveling whether Oumuamua will be our 1st contact situation?

Oh, how about a teensi weensi little reaction.
You never know, it might be aliens and Seti@Home would want to be the ones who prooved it one way or another wouldnt they? :)

What more than has already been done could seti@home do, The object isn't emitting a radio signal and we have no means to chase it with a manned or unmanned spacecraft as it exits the inner solar system since it is going way faster than is possible for a man made object at this time.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

It seems that there is interest in Oumuama, in the SETI community. Both the SETI Institute and Breakthrough Listen have directed radio telescopes at the object recently. The SETI Institute used the Allen Telescope Array for this monitoring. Breakthrough Listen used the Green Bank Observatory. Please find a link, below, to an article with more information on this.

http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=38844

Michael, thanks for the entertaining read.

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Two of NASA’s space telescopes (Hubble and Spitzer) are tracking the object

Oumuamua, may have left the solar system, depends on where our solar system ends? Scientists still need to work on that.

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though its outbound path is about 20 degrees above the plane of planets that orbit the Sun. The object passed Mars’s orbit around Nov. 1 and will pass Jupiter’s orbit in May of 2018. It will travel beyond Saturn’s orbit in January 2019; as it leaves our solar system, ‘Oumuamua will head for the constellation Pegasus.

That makes it comfortably within the Solar system, even allowing for its 20 degree out of plane path.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

"We are a scientific project, we don't react to tabloid hysteria.
We know what we are doing and why we do it." -- Chris S

Amen! Not to mention that we don't have surplus resources to use on stupid stuff like this.

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“Upon opening the box, Schroedinger's raccoon will be observed in one of three possible states; alive, dead, or really, really pissed off.”

Michael, thanks for the entertaining read.

It's interesting to note that the SETI Institute was using the Allen Telescope Array last night, as they have done repeatedly, before, to monitor Oumuamua. They combined all their observing power into one receiving beam for this purpose. They normally use three beams, each looking at different object, at the same time.

They clearly judge this to be valid scientific work. When I looked in, they were observing at around 7 GHz, over a 10 MHz bandwidth, which they can resolve into much narrower channels for analysis.

I was initially interested in the link by reading

[quote]Breakthrough Listen was using the Green Bank Telescope for a few hours last weekend. This was actually looking for water via hydroxyl lines using broadband 1.1-1.9 GHz data.

Looking for hydroxyl emission lines does not preclude the possibility of listening for and discovering an intelligent extraterrestrial signal, especially in a project dedicated to SETI, such as Breakthrough Listen.

The famous 'waterhole' around 1.4 to to 1.7 GHz has long been advocated as a band particularly appropriate for listening for SETI signals. I see that this sub-band is well within the range monitored by Breakthrough Listen.

IF it were an artificial object of some sort wouldn't it leave some sort of signature in it's wake just like a comet does when it is outgassing.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

A few minutes ago, at 02:26 Universal Time, The Allen Telescope Array was again directed at Oumuamua. They're current listening around 8.440 GHz . The location of the object is little changed from last night. The Right ascension remains the same: 23.30 hours. The Declination has shifted a mite, from 6.98 degrees, last night, to 7.03 tonight. The website for observing what they're up to is:

http://www.setiquest.info

To me, the value of studying this object as much as possible lies simply in the fact we don't often get a chance to examine something so otherworldly as close-by as this. It's a stranger zooming through our land, and there might be something interesting to learn from it.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Russian billionaire Yuri Milner says if the space rock 'Oumuamua is giving off radio signals, his team will be able to detect them—and they may get the results within days.

The email about “a most peculiar object” in the solar system arrived in Yuri Milner’s inbox last week.

Milner, the Russian billionaire behind Breakthrough Listen, a $100 million search for intelligent extraterrestrial life, had already heard about the peculiar object. ‘Oumuamua barreled into view in October, the first interstellar object seen in our solar system.

Astronomers around the world chased after the mysterious space rock with their telescopes, collecting as much data as they could as it sped away. Their observations revealed a truly unusual object with puzzling properties. Scientists have long predicted an interstellar visitor would someday coast into our corner of the universe, but not something like this.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/12/yuri-milner-oumuamua-interstellar-asteroid/547985/

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I think that if Oumuamua were emitting any kind of radio transmission it would have been one of the first things discovered by those who discovered it in the first place. We must face the fact that even if it were a probe made by an intelligent ET they weren't looking for us but rather just using our sun for a speed boost on the way to wherever it is going.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

Here is a clip of the news going on located here:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/astronomers-to-check-interstellar-body-for-signs-of-alien-technology/ar-BBGCXco?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout



The Green Bank telescope in West Virginia will listen for radio signals being broadcast from a cigar-shaped body which was first spotted in the solar system in October. The body arrived from interstellar space and reached a peak speed of 196,000 mph as it swept past the sun.

Scientists on the Breakthrough Listen project, which searches for evidence of alien civilisations, said the Green Bank telescope would monitor the object, named ‘Oumuamua, from Wednesday. The first phase of observations is expected to last 10 hours and will tune in to four different radio transmission bands.

“Most likely it is of natural origin, but because it is so peculiar, we would like to check if it has any sign of artificial origin, such as radio emissions,” said Avi Loeb, professor of astronomy at Harvard University and an adviser to the Breakthrough Listen project. “If we do detect a signal that appears artificial in origin, we’ll know immediately

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TV shows like Ancient Aliens & UFO Hunters, would show cigar shaped objects.

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* Lets start a new conspiracy theory - It is an ET probe, and they have deliberately put it in an orbital path that won't give away where it came from. When far enough away from the Solar system, they'll realign it for home. Pass it on to all your friends :-))

It's " Black knight's " bigger brother ;-) Just came by to make sure it was ok

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Life is what you make of it :-)

When i'm good i'm very good , but when i'm bad i'm shi#eloads better ;-) In't I " buttercups " p.m.s.l at authoritie !!;-)

No alien signals have been detected from an interstellar, cigar-shaped space rock discovered travelling through our Solar System in October, researchers listening for evidence of extraterrestrial technology said Thursday.

The object, dubbed Oumuamua, was spotted by several Earthly telescopes two months ago.

Given its weird trajectory, surprised researchers immediately concluded it was from beyond our planetary system—the first interstellar object ever identified in our midst.

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-alien-cigar-shaped-asteroid.html

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The linked article, below, seems to take a somewhat more optimistic attitude toward what the data on Oumuamua may reveal. The Breakthrough Listen spokesperson points out that 90 Terabytes of data were collected, and that proper analysis of such a large file will take some time.

Not finding a very obvious signal immediately could simply mean that we haven't looked hard enough. We may be conditioned by motion pictures to expect something like Ellie Arroway hearing a signal with earphones, in real-time. A painstaking analysis that eventually reveals a faint but telling trace of organized electromagnetic energy is probably a more realistic scenario.

http://www.space.com/39100-interstellar-object-oumuamua-alien-life-search.html