Orbits and when to get excited: a thread
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Until the arc of an orbit is sufficiently long, there are really strong uncertainties in what its orbit can be. The ways this gets resolved? More observations
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This is not the first object since 2017/1I, better known as ʻOumuamua, to show a hyperbolic orbit. Several short-arcs have flourished and slid slowly into the demise of straightforward parabolas. What it took? More observations
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Orbits are determined by mathematical fits to the astrometry that's sent to the MPC by observers all around the world. At the moment, there are some weird residuals in the fit to the orbit of this candidate object. You know what will resolve that? More observations
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I too will be delighted to see a second observable interstellar object. And I'm absolutely sure
@MinorPlanetCtr are watching the incoming astrometry. For now? No MPEC yet. Sometimes, we just have to wait for the motion of the heavens. And make...more observations. /finPrikaži ovu nit - Kraj razgovora
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