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== Unecessary ambiguity? ==
== More on hydrogen gas theory ==


In the section on composition, the sentence "The authors calculated that a month after perihelion, that ʻOumuamua had lost 92% of the mass it had upon entering the Solar System" would appear to apply to an object that consisted largely of ice, similar to a comet.
-- ] (]) 21:27, 22 March 2023 (UTC)


So the uncommented transition to the first sentence of the next paragraph "Light curve observations suggest the object may be composed of dense metal-rich rock that has been reddened by millions of years of exposure to cosmic rays" creates an unnecessary non-sequitur since a "dense metal-rich rock" object would hardly lose 92% of its mass by passing the Sun at a distance of 37,000,000 k.
== New study on why Hydrogen Iceberg doesn't work ==


I don't have the expertise to fix this authoritatively. ] (]) 23:23, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/oumuamua-was-not-a-hydrogen-water-iceberg-1dd2f7a6107f Looks like the hydrogen theory is bust, so to my knowledge it looks like pretty much every proposed explanation for what this thing was has been shot down. — '''''<small>]<sup>(])<small><sub>(]<sup>(])</sup></sub></small></sup></small>''''' 19:39, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

:Try now :) ]] 08:04, 26 August 2024 (UTC)
::Thanks for clearing that up! ] (]) ] (]) 21:35, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

== Using narrow gaps instead of commas as thousand separator ==

According to the Manual of Style, you may use as a thousand separator either a comma or a narrow gap (by using the template gaps).

Nonetheless, the Manual of Style also states that grouping of digits using narrow gaps is “especially recommended for articles related to science, technology, engineering or mathematics”. This is due to the fact that it's the normalized way in the international standards (] and ]), and also it's the recommended style by ] and ].

Proposal: change the article to format numbers like this "{{gaps|1|000|000}}" instead of "1,000,000". ] (]) 09:59, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

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On the Anomalous Acceleration of 1I/2017 U1 `Oumuamua Darryl Seligman, Gregory Laughlin, Konstantin Batygin (Submitted on 12 Mar 2019)

Unecessary ambiguity?

In the section on composition, the sentence "The authors calculated that a month after perihelion, that ʻOumuamua had lost 92% of the mass it had upon entering the Solar System" would appear to apply to an object that consisted largely of ice, similar to a comet.

So the uncommented transition to the first sentence of the next paragraph "Light curve observations suggest the object may be composed of dense metal-rich rock that has been reddened by millions of years of exposure to cosmic rays" creates an unnecessary non-sequitur since a "dense metal-rich rock" object would hardly lose 92% of its mass by passing the Sun at a distance of 37,000,000 k.

I don't have the expertise to fix this authoritatively. Pascalulu88 (talk) 23:23, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

Try now :) cyclopia 08:04, 26 August 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for clearing that up! Pascalulu88 (talk) Pascalulu88 (talk) 21:35, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Using narrow gaps instead of commas as thousand separator

According to the Manual of Style, you may use as a thousand separator either a comma or a narrow gap (by using the template gaps).

Nonetheless, the Manual of Style also states that grouping of digits using narrow gaps is “especially recommended for articles related to science, technology, engineering or mathematics”. This is due to the fact that it's the normalized way in the international standards (ISO/IEC 80000 and International System of Units), and also it's the recommended style by ANSI and NIST.

Proposal: change the article to format numbers like this "1000000" instead of "1,000,000". RGLago (talk) 09:59, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

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