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The ‘Oumuamua Asteroid Likely Came from a Tatooine-Like Star System (gizmodo.com)
8 points by rbanffy on March 20, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



> binary star system

Not Tatooine-like. For it to be a Tatooine-like star system then for sure there would need to be a Tatooine-like planet in it. Which for this case there is no mention. Flagged as ridiculous clickbait title. It may have come from a binary star system. Simple.

And why even do all this? Surely the headline does more to mislead and disinform than it does relate to a common reader.

Edit: For the record, I clicked on this link specifically to understand how we had advanced so far as to not only detect this planet and know of its desert-like surface and atmosphere, but also to trace this asteroid back to it! Incredible! Wow! Feat of modern magic! But it's all fake, with headlines meant to deceive and not inform or even entertain.


I suspect the title wasn't intended to be clickbait as the top priority, but rather to give the most familiar example of a binary star system in probably any media.


Flagged as well. The litany of clickbait headlines re: Oumuamua has been infuriating.




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