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'Oumuamua
The Intersteller Asteroid
IAU A1I/2017-U1
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JPL Video (narated)
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Re: Reported "Intersteller Asteroid"IAU Designation: A-1I/2017-U1 Correct ID: Intergalactic Spline From: MGEN Z. SMITH G2 (Corps Intelligence Officer) @ UNSGC GHQ NY USA To: ALL UNSGC Personnel Subject: Declassified Report Original Report Date: 20 NOV 17 Declassification Date: 25 NOV 17 Declassification Authority: MGEN Z. SMITH G2
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* The extra material is about the Near Earth Program. BLANK G2 Editors Note:The following document is a precise copy of a formerly classified report produced by scientific personnel operating out of AREA-52 in the USA.Unless otherwise stated contents within square brackets "[... ]" are the authorised editor's insertions. Unauthorised editing is forbidden. Links highlighted in red are classified to a higher level than you are permitted to access, and their contents have therefore been automatically redacted by the server. Please contact the unit S1 (Administrations Officer) if you think you are being incorrectly denied access.
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An artist's impression. (click image to enlarge) NB: The artist was not aware of the existence of the pairs of obelisks carried along the top of a spline, and in consequence, these features were omitted. Despite this it is a remarkably accurate facsimile of a spline. Fortunately no telescope in present service has the resolution to pick up that level of detail, thus premature disclosure was avoided. Data:First Detected By UNSGC: 30 Sep 17 By AREA-52 Gatewatch USA.First observed: 19 OCT 17 BY "Pan-STARRS1 (University of Hawaii)" IAU designation: 1I/2017-U1 Proportions: 20:2:1 cigar shaped Dimensions: 400x40x20m Estimated mass: 16,000~24,000 metric tonnes Colour: red/orange (iron oxide) with variable brightness Course: High aspect approach perpendicular to the plain of the ecliptic of the solar system @ 24 kps exhibiting a hyperbolic trajectory, diving in from the direction of Vega. then it performed a slingshot around the sun changing course by approximately 90 degrees, and it accelerated to 87 kps, and passed the earth at a range of 24 mkm. It is now departing the solar system on course for the constellation of Pegasus. See animation of flight path HERE [Duration 0:54] BLANK CommentsBLANKThe contents of this report were formally classified, however it was only with the public announcement of the objects detection and description as an interstellar asteroid by civilian astronomers, was it felt that the following could be declassified for internal distribution. This document remains TOP SECRET beyond the UNSGC, and remains classified as RESTRICTED within the Command. Background BriefThe object described in the public media as the "first detected interstellar asteroid" was in fact, our first encounter in space with an operational Spline. The Spline is the form used by AS#1 (Alien Species #1) the builders of the STAR GATE network to distribute the individual modules. Each module stacks back to front, in the same way as slices of bread do in a loaf; the result is the characteristic cigar shape seen in the artists impression (see image).Upon arrival at a destination, a clutch of modules detaches from the rear of the Spline, and are deposited upon the planets surface, thereafter, as long as they remain exposed to a standard atmosphere, they function as STAR GATES, providing linear travel along their length over enormous distances, most journeys exceeding the limits of the light horizon (c.46x109 LY). The Encounter AREA-52 Gatewatch detected the incoming spline on the 30 Sep 17 during an experiment being conducted during the latter stages of the failed activation period scheduled to have occurred at the end of that month. The signals received indicated the spline's presence within the solar system, and that it was approaching from above at a speed of 38kps, however at that time it was not possible to directly image the spline. It was undesireable to alert the astrophysics community to its presence within the Solar System.Note that unless you have direct access to one of its own modules, no worm hole can be formed between it and any other STAR GATE; they are in that respect a closed linear system. But, they do seem to execute some kind of an electro-magnetic hand-shake protocol, when in proximity to other splines or individual STAR GATES, which is how it was first detected. Bearing in mind that the STAR GATE network extends beyond the light horizon of the visible universe some 46 billion light years away, it is obvious that in some fashion yet unknown, these splines break the laws of physics as we understand them, enabling them to cover distances that under 'normal' conditions, would require them to travel faster than light. This begs the question as to why such a vessel would be making its approach at such a low relative speed, and seemingly require to 'steal' some of the sun's gravitational energy to accelerate it to just 87 kps. Clearly, there is much we do not understand about how these machines work in deep space, or indeed, at all. The spline entered the solar system from the direction of the constellation Vega, then performed the afore-mentioned gravity assist or so-called "sling shot" manoeuvre around the Sun, passing sufficiently close that a regular asteroid would have been captured and consumed by the star. However, its speed and construction enabled it to change course by almost 90 degrees and increase its speed to 87 kps, surpassing the necessary escape velocity to avoid falling back in to the star, or to go in to orbit; instead it continued en route to the Pegasus constellation. During its departure from the solar system the spline passed within 24 million kilometres of the Earth, but as it was not going to pose a NEO threat, no further action was taken. The proportions and dimensions are consistent with either a very small spline, or with a much larger one that has already deposited the vast majority of its modules on other worlds. The Spline to which SG52, the GATE held at AREA-52 here in the USA, belongs, is considered of moderate size, yet it has in excess of 1,500 GATES. The colour is interesting, as all the recovered GATES are not red/orange, but black. However, the few damaged examples found at Base-78 and elsewhere off-world, were reported as being coated in what at first was believed to be iron oxide. This is consistent with their light iron construction*. We agree with the proposition put forward by our civilian colleagues in NASA that this coloration arises during the immensely long intergalactic space voyages undertaken by these vessels, only losing their coating after prolonged exposure to a terrestrial atmosphere. It would be extremely advantageous to acquire a sample of this surface coating. Therefore all science teams must be alerted to look for this compound during off-world operations. *NB: light iron is a material which appears atomically to be iron, but whose mass is insufficient. Iron has a specific gravity of approximately 8 gcm, whereas the GATES come in at approximately 3 gcm. Postscript: Evidence suggests that at least one STAR GATE module separated from the spline and made a controlled descent to the surface of the planet. Due to its small size, and a lack of a high energy trail implying that it had slowed to less than orbital velocity (5kps), no track was possible and the landing sites remain at this time unknown. Executive Resources have been alerted and are undergoing a search and recovery operation. The suspected modules have been assigned the designations SG81 and SG82, following in sequence from those already known or suspected to exist upon the earth. Base-78 housed the original 78 GATES, and one was discovered and then removed by persons unknown from Indonesia, see the The Owen Report from RGHQ-51 in the UK. While it is suspected that the russians together with the chinese are covertly operating another from a base somewhere in siberia. This latter is believed to have been dredged from the arctic sea floor sometime between 2000 and 2010. [report by col. Lara tachikoma] this is in direct contravention of the terms and conditions of participation in the contact program; we will have to wait until firm proof of such is found, before action can be taken by the remainder of committee 78. End of comments Abbreviations
IAU – International Astronomical Union
BLANK PUBLICALLY AVAILABLE INFORMATION RE 1I/2017 U1 AKA 'OUMUAMUA.BLANKThe JPL press release and video can be seen HERE Or for a concise version of the JPL video, click HERE [DURATION 1:38] BLANK The full text of the JPL press release:BLANK"Artist's concept of interstellar asteroid 1I/2017 U1 ('Oumuamua) as it passed through the solar system after its discovery in October 2017. [image repositioned above] The aspect ratio of up to 10:1 is unlike that of any object seen in our own solar system. Image credit: European Southern Observatory / M. Kornmesser. Astronomers recently scrambled to observe an intriguing asteroid that zipped through the solar system on a steep trajectory from interstellar space-the first confirmed object from another star. Now, new data reveal the interstellar interloper to be a rocky, cigar-shaped object with a somewhat reddish hue. The asteroid, named 'Oumuamua by its discoverers, is up to one-quarter mile (400 meters) long and highly-elongated-perhaps 10 times as long as it is wide. That aspect ratio is greater than that of any asteroid or comet observed in our solar system to date. While its elongated shape is quite surprising, and unlike asteroids seen in our solar system, it may provide new clues into how other solar systems formed. The observations and analyses were funded in part by NASA and appear in the Nov. 20 issue of the journal Nature. They suggest this unusual object had been wandering through the Milky Way, unattached to any star system, for hundreds of millions of years before its chance encounter with our star system. "For decades we've theorized that such interstellar objects are out there, and now - for the first time - we have direct evidence they exist," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. "This history-making discovery is opening a new window to study formation of solar systems beyond our own." Immediately after its discovery, telescopes around the world, including ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile, were called into action to measure the object's orbit, brightness and color. Urgency for viewing from ground-based telescopes was vital to get the best data. Combining the images from the FORS instrument on the ESO telescope using four different filters with those of other large telescopes, a team of astronomers led by Karen Meech of the Institute for Astronomy in Hawaii found that 'Oumuamua varies in brightness by a factor of 10 as it spins on its axis every 7.3 hours. No known asteroid or comet from our solar system varies so widely in brightness, with such a large ratio between length and width. The most elongated objects we have seen to date are no more than three times longer than they are wide. "This unusually big variation in brightness means that the object is highly elongated: about ten times as long as it is wide, with a complex, convoluted shape," said Meech. "We also found that it had a reddish color, similar to objects in the outer solar system, and confirmed that it is completely inert, without the faintest hint of dust around it." These properties suggest that 'Oumuamua is dense, composed of rock and possibly metals, has no water or ice, and that its surface was reddened due to the effects of irradiation from cosmic rays over hundreds of millions of years. A few large ground-based telescopes continue to track the asteroid, though it's rapidly fading as it recedes from our planet. Two of NASA's space telescopes (Hubble and Spitzer) are tracking the object the week of Nov. 20. As of Nov. 20, 'Oumuamua is travelling about 85,700 miles per hour (38.3 kilometers per second) relative to the Sun. Its location is approximately 124 million miles (200 million kilometers) from Earth -- the distance between Mars and Jupiter - 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. Observations from large ground-based telescopes will continue until the object becomes too faint to be detected, sometime after mid-December. NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) continues to take all available tracking measurements to refine the trajectory of 1I/2017 U1 as it exits our solar system. This remarkable object was discovered Oct. 19 by the University of Hawaii's Pan-STARRS1 telescope, funded by NASA's Near-Earth Object Observations (NEOO) Program, which finds and tracks asteroids and comets in Earth's neighborhood. NASA Planetary Defense Officer Lindley Johnson said, "We are fortunate that our sky survey telescope was looking in the right place at the right time to capture this historic moment. This serendipitous discovery is bonus science enabled by NASA's efforts to find, track and characterize near-Earth objects that could potentially pose a threat to our planet." Preliminary orbital calculations suggest that the object came from the approximate direction of the bright star Vega, in the northern constellation of Lyra. However, it took so long for the interstellar object to make the journey - even at the speed of about 59,000 miles per hour (26.4 kilometers per second) -- that Vega was not near that position when the asteroid was there about 300,000 years ago. While originally classified as a comet, observations from ESO and elsewhere revealed no signs of cometary activity after it slingshotted past the Sun on Sept. 9 at a blistering speed of 196,000 miles per hour (87.3 kilometers per second). The object has since been reclassified as interstellar asteroid 1I/2017 U1 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), which is responsible for granting official names to bodies in the solar system and beyond. In addition to the technical name, the Pan-STARRS team dubbed it 'Oumuamua (pronounced oh MOO-uh MOO-uh), which is Hawaiian for "a messenger from afar arriving first." Astronomers estimate that an interstellar asteroid similar to 'Oumuamua passes through the inner solar system about once per year, but they are faint and hard to spot and have been missed until now. It is only recently that survey telescopes, such as Pan-STARRS, are powerful enough to have a chance to discover them. "What a fascinating discovery this is!" said Paul Chodas, manager of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. "It's a strange visitor from a faraway star system, shaped like nothing we've ever seen in our own solar system neighborhood." For more on NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office: https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense To watch a NASA Planetary Defense video on International Asteroid Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYO-mpoC8_s Click here for interstellar asteroid FAQs: https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/faq/interstellar END OF PRESS RELEASE. END OF DOCUMENT
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Flight Path Annimation
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