The Rarest Objects in The Solar System Are from...Elsewhere...
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In 2017, astronomers discovered 'Oumuamua - the first definitive interstellar visitor to our solar system. But definitive evidence of space rocks that don't just visit but join our solar system is a little more elusive.
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@FourthRoot Ай бұрын
I remember Hyakutake. I was 8 years old, and my parents drove us a couple of hours out of Denver into the mountains to see it. I remember it was basically just a very dim, fuzzy dot you could only really see if you didn't look directly at it. But learning now that Hyakutake might have been an interstellar object makes that memory that much more profound.
@danieloneal7137 Ай бұрын
Congratulations on getting a chair and a set to film on, instead of just a green screen. Feels like a real step up for SciShow. 🙂
@Quzga 25 күн бұрын
Don't you mean step down? 😂
@TamarZiri Ай бұрын
Congrats on 10 years Reid!! :D
@zippythinginvention Ай бұрын
I did not realize that the Voyager probes have not gone through the Oort cloud. Wow. That gives me a reason to hope they live another 30 years.
@spvillano Ай бұрын
You're gonna have a wee bit longer of a wait. The Oort cloud is way out there and extends halfway to the Centuri system. Space is inconveniently big, well, save when something energetically interesting happens, when it's extra-conveniently big enough to not do that killing us off thing.
@xlgapelsin6173 Ай бұрын
Sorry to tell you but its 300 years untill Voyager reaches the oort cloud
@SlavaPunta Ай бұрын
Dates vary by source / paper, but their batteries aren't expected to last more than a year or two at this point.
@JNArnold 27 күн бұрын
@@spvillano Which is super cool to think about, because the Centuri System's Oort Cloud equivalent could be interacting with ours.
@ultimaIXultima 26 күн бұрын
@@SlavaPunta Yes but let's not forget NASA probes have the tendency to live forever, haha. I definitely hope they keep them alive for the next 30 years. 🤞
@liiammiller7881 Ай бұрын
Also the thought of a piece of our solar system one day teaching aliens about our home kinda warms my heart and makes me feel a little less small in our very, very large universe.
@themanhimself3 Ай бұрын
I hope that aliens are one day decoding the gold disk on the voyager.
@arthurorir8554 Ай бұрын
spatial archaeology
@borttorbbq2556 Ай бұрын
You know I think it depends because if it's a fossil bearing rock i'm gonna be extremely concerned
@MsHarpsychord 3 күн бұрын
"Well kids I'm from Earth, my people are a bunch of idiots but I mostly love them"
@borttorbbq2556 3 күн бұрын
@@MsHarpsychord Pretty much. I love our anxiety ridden apes of this planet
@randalscott7224 Ай бұрын
I'm happy that Comet Hyakutake is considered a possible visitor to our Solar system as this was the first comet I recall seeing that looked like a "proper" comet. I recall watching Hyakutake visibly move against the background stars in '96, a warmup for Hale-Bopp.
@markzambelli Ай бұрын
Hear, hear! Hyakutake was the one of the first comets I was tasked with charting nightly (by hand with pencil, on blown-up star charts) and yes, it was the perfect prelude to the wonder that was Hale-Bopp👍🤌 🖖
@ColumbiaB Ай бұрын
ʻOumuamua visited our system in hopes of snagging Reid’s chill aloha shirt.
@casjean8904 Ай бұрын
i wish it was buttoned!
@spvillano Ай бұрын
@@casjean8904 everyone's entitled to their kink... I'll just get my hat...
@casjean8904 Ай бұрын
@@spvillano lol
@_andrewvia Ай бұрын
Reid has a chair now, and a room with retro decor. Hank, eat your heart out. Reid has style and panache!
@apocalypse487 Ай бұрын
It's the same set from that video with that stranger.
@MySmileStillStaysOn Ай бұрын
Omg, he's dressed like a drug kingpin or something, lmao. He's the big man now!😂
@Patchouliprince Ай бұрын
@@MySmileStillStaysOna drug kingpin? lol yea if drug kingpins buy their button ups at Walmart
@jamesfowley4114 Ай бұрын
I like the new set. It feels more like a discussion than a lecture.
@screwthisin Ай бұрын
Wife: Honey i saw an asteroid going the wrong direction. Ka'epaoka'āwela: its not just one, its all of them.
@chatbear69 Ай бұрын
The only thing better than getting a shot of science from Reid is a double shot. Keep up the great work!
@RokNezic Ай бұрын
Having veen lucky enough to co-author a paper on 2I/Borisov, I'm always happy to see it represented :D But also: I haven't had time to keep up with papers on it since, but it's really nice to see that entirely different avenues of study (we used a... rather obscure one) come to the same conclusion! Because we also said that the comet likely never went close to its parent star before escaping its solar system
@nasababy2279 Ай бұрын
What do you do as a job? I’m interested
@ilpi7216 Ай бұрын
So, it had mommy/daddy issues and decided to move out of the country? lol
@spvillano Ай бұрын
@@ilpi7216 usually, the mommy/daddy issues result in it getting kicked out of the house. @RokNezic yep, replication is cool - especially when other methods confirm initial results! Science at its best! Of course, Retraction Watch is also science at its best, as it's exposing science at its worst. Obligatory Garden of Rama joke inserted here... I'll disagree with our host on "we'll never know" on ISO candidates, a drill and sample return mission could easily yield samples that could give an isotopic mixture that's decidedly non-Sol system in nature. Or not. Either way, we'd learn something, just as we did from I1 and solar radiation effects and outgassing. Well, that or the Ramans always do things in 3's. You knew that joke was coming, yes?
@DebbieEvers Ай бұрын
I really like that set. You guys just get better and better!
@mythology2467 Ай бұрын
This format makes it feel like we're on a date with Reid and just asked what his hobbies are 😅 Not that im complaining 😘
@themistressofminerals Ай бұрын
LMAOO WAIT THATS SO ACCURATE
@KylarRaynor Ай бұрын
I'm diggin' the Casual Reid-ing Corner vibe, gives his shirts a chance to play their role in viewership 😄
@octopusoup Ай бұрын
The rarest objects in the universe is the person reading this. There's only one of you. Take care of yourselves.
@NamesMori Ай бұрын
awhh🥹🩵
@FrenchCanadianGuy Ай бұрын
Right in the feels
@OfficialMaxXimusK Ай бұрын
And yet I'm oh so replaceable
@Fresh2Death890 Ай бұрын
You made my day. Thank you!
@rolmodel12. Ай бұрын
Well played!
@colinleat8309 Ай бұрын
I just discovered your channel a few days ago. Congratulations on 10 year's. I'm already enjoying binging! 🤘😎🖖🇨🇦🕊️
@itchywitch5923 Ай бұрын
Dear SciShow, Please do an episode about chronic kidney disease! My dad has been diagnosed and is like to get the run down the SciShow way! All these other videos aren’t getting me the info I need! Thanks! A concerned daughter
@358itachi Ай бұрын
Congrats to Reid on 10 years of hosting SciShow videos.
@The_Silver_Lurker Ай бұрын
I love the casual nature of the set... It's oddly refreshing!
@human_cube Ай бұрын
The vibe of this video makes me feel like I'm in the room with homie chillin talking about "space stuff" Also GREAT SHIRT...reminds me of the dude from CURIOUS DROID. That dude has some FIRE shirts lemme tell you.
@leftcoastfunk Ай бұрын
Regarding Comet Bowell, I'm now sitting here imagining a civilization on a far away planet having some kind of educational briefing on this weird flaming ball of ice that came from outside their system and wondering how it happened
@JavSusLar Ай бұрын
5:42 I Saw comet Hiakutake back in 1996. The most overwhelming spectacle of nature I have ever witnessed. It was more than 60⁰ in the night sky, I had to move my head to fully contemplate it.
@washingtonunibound Ай бұрын
I really love the style change for the presentation. I feel like I'm retaining more information from this more conversational experience! Thanks so much for the always-awesome science videos!!
@cathyb1273 Ай бұрын
I have some delay on watching Scishow and I am just discovering the new studio, nice and cozy 😊
@drayginmanutz2381 14 күн бұрын
This guys one of my favorite narrators on your channel besides , of course Hank
@neylsonrodrigues7350 Ай бұрын
thanks for doing all the hard work and creating the metric. can't wait to start testing it out myself this coming weekend.
@muadddib Ай бұрын
The absolute drip on this man
@peasant8246 Ай бұрын
Wonderful host for this video, I hope we shall see more of him in the future.
@latenighter1965 Ай бұрын
I like the "new" set your using. At least I've never seen it before, so its great looking. Keep using it.
@LostMekkaSoft Ай бұрын
that is a really cool set! the topics covered are always interesting, but it is also cool to see that the set is getting more interesting too :3
@ilikemoviesandmore Ай бұрын
Really like this new setup!
@Mechadondada Ай бұрын
Speaking of ʻOumuamua, I recently started my 3rd listening of Rendezvous With Rama. Just noticed this from chapter one: *At 09.46 GMT on the morning of 11 September, in the exceptionally beautiful summer of the year 2077, most of the inhabitants of Europe saw a dazzling fireball appear in the eastern sky. Within seconds it was brighter than the sun, and as it moved across the heavens-at first in utter silence-it left behind it a churning column of dust and smoke.*
@frostyw Ай бұрын
Loving that new studio.
@guilhermepinheiro5342 Ай бұрын
Great content ❤
@ralphlindberg1299 Ай бұрын
Remember we have only closely watching for, and plotting the orbits of, all objects for the last few years. This due to concerns over possible Earth impactor objects. This implies that small interstellar objects are more common then we thought.
@3RaccoonsInATank Ай бұрын
You know what the actual rarest object in the Solar System is, It's you. There is only one of you in the entirety of everything. That is one hell of a fantastic thing.
@nasababy2279 Ай бұрын
@@bywonline so profound
@keb7066 Ай бұрын
@@bywonlinewrong, oumuamua is a space hot dog
@pattiheffernan2451 Ай бұрын
Yep he's unique just like everyone else
@culturebreath369 Ай бұрын
@@keb7066the forbidden space hotdog. 😂
@howdy4504 Ай бұрын
what's that in the sky? is it a bird? is it a plane? is it an alien spacecraft? nah, it's a rock (or something) saying hi :)
@mh6276 Ай бұрын
I was just watching NileRed before seeing this and "nah" made me think of baking soda (if you remove the end of the formula because that is made of CO3).
@thehellyousay Ай бұрын
"look! up in the sky!" "it's a bird." "it's a plane." "it's ..., it's ...-" SPLAAANNNG! "... a piano ..."
@masterChiZhee Ай бұрын
It's a...turd? O.@
@thehellyousay Ай бұрын
@@masterChiZhee *splat* eeeeewwww ...
@koda4247 7 күн бұрын
From the thumbnail I can promise you I saw one of those at about 8:30 this morning
@TurboJesus Ай бұрын
I knew space was vast, but I didn’t really grasp it until you mentioned the time it’ll take voyager to reach the Oort Cloud. I thought these things were so much closer than this… that is insane. 🤯
@AliHSyed Ай бұрын
We need to have an intercepting vehicle ready in space to catch up to the next Oumuamua that’ll cross our path.
@Johnathonisnotcool Ай бұрын
I have that shirt too!!!
@KY_CPA Ай бұрын
That chair looks like it was custom made for Reid 😎
@SaintJohnVideo Ай бұрын
Great episode, as usual. the new host sitting down format looks more uncomfortable than when they used to stand though.
@EdwardM919 Ай бұрын
It was supposed to hit, but the three body problem plagues extraterrestrials too.
@andrewhahn1983 Ай бұрын
Thanks for the vid, super interesting The chair is a bit distracting, particularly with the high arm/head rest. maybe something a bit like John's early crash course chair and desk, not the leather fire place chair.
@Allwaysexcel Ай бұрын
Thinking about things like this makes me sad that my life is too short to witness certain astrological breakthroughs.
@Barvazonik Ай бұрын
Omuamua is further then Uranus 🤣
@AlexandarHullRichter 2 күн бұрын
What ISO do you think I'd need to use to photograph an ISO? My camera only goes up to 6400.
@user-iq6cc3df3l Ай бұрын
It seems that the odds of an interstellar object entering our solar system is so low you’d expect it to nearly never happen. It might be like shooting a bullet from Mt. Rainier with a really powerful gun, but hitting a target on Maui. It might even be harder than that. But gaps between solar systems are so vast that odds are, an interstellar object would simply fly through space for eons without hitting any solar system.
@itzamia 29 күн бұрын
Incase you're wondering, 400 billion hours is = 45,631,783 years
@Dwigglemoo Ай бұрын
you sound like Penn of Penn and Tellar. I just can't escape it
@mcv2178 Ай бұрын
Omg you are right! A lot less bombastic and more gentle, though : )
@curtislindsey1736 Ай бұрын
I like the new set, and now you get to take a seat! 😀
@ianh1504 Ай бұрын
"Sweet! Were in space! That was quick! How much longer till we get to the moon?" *1 0 0 D A Y S*
@CoordinatedCarry Ай бұрын
I was expecting a Despicable Me quote at the beginning of that ad read. Vector, a quantity with both direction & magnitude.
@Nekotaku_TV Ай бұрын
I so wish we could come across another planet's Voyager.
@rollinwithunclepete824 Ай бұрын
Sci Show Space is now broadcasting from Reid's basement.
@the13nth25 19 күн бұрын
"Omouamoua is already further from the sun than Uranus is"
@StardogTheRed Ай бұрын
I swear I saw this video the other day?
@TheMightyDozen Ай бұрын
yeah, me too, skimming through this video i recognize all of the names mentioned and i know for a fact i saw them all in a recent scishow video
@redcoat4348 Ай бұрын
I noticed that the original video they posted is deleted now. I wonder why they reuploaded this one…
@mariyamwaniki Ай бұрын
Had to hear the where's Waldo comment twice
@LordBrittish Ай бұрын
Perhaps there were some things they really felt needed to be fixed?
@Mr.V. Ай бұрын
I swear i saw this comment on the same previous upload which they deleted.
@danielvillalba5375 Ай бұрын
Woah that's cool...so is our solar system a run of the mill system or is it really weird?
@ElDaumo Ай бұрын
That back part of the chair looks like the weirdest shoulder pad
@jamesharmer9293 Ай бұрын
Remember to water that plant Reid !!
@user-iq6cc3df3l Ай бұрын
I believe that an object in a solar system can only go hyperbolic if: A. It has its own propulsion, or B. It’s interstellar. I’m no physicist but I believe a hyperbolic trajectory only happens if an object’s speed is high enough to achieve escape velocity. In this case I guess the Sun would be the candidate for that object to revolve around but a hyperbolic orbit comes in flat and leaves flat, usually gone to the next solar system, wherever that might be.
@TheMoonRover 20 күн бұрын
Gravitational assists are also a thing. If an object passes too close to a much larger object (like a planet) its velocity (speed and direction) is going to be significantly altered. Plenty of space probes have exploited that to reduce the fuel requirement, but the larger planets could just as easily boost a random comet onto an escape trajectory.
@avengersnewbie2348 Ай бұрын
Long time no see, where were you mate?
@white_isnt_a_race2338 Ай бұрын
Moon
@carpemkarzi Ай бұрын
Wow, they finally got you a chair. Just in time for a cool video.
@notsure2101 Ай бұрын
I randomly found this object on the NASA app. The eyes on asteroid function is like Google maps for the solar system. From 1949-2049
@qwertyuiopgarth Ай бұрын
Thus some of the descriptions of the object were as hyperbolic as the path of the object.
@gruntonium1669 Ай бұрын
did this video get removed and had to be reuploaded or something?
@dmminion8407 Ай бұрын
Yep
@Welsh7133 Ай бұрын
I thought they just remastered it
@heavymetalbassist5 Ай бұрын
The audio was fuggy
@macsnafu Ай бұрын
Space may only be an hour's drive away, but the depths of the ocean are even less that--only about 7 miles at its deepest. Of course, it's not the actual distance that's the problem! It's interesting to think that all sorts of things may be going on in the universe, but it's so large that only a fraction of a fraction of it is happening right here in our solar system. When we manage interstellar travel, we'll probably discover a lot more interesting stuff.
@carlkingery9259 Ай бұрын
So 1I is not on its way back to our solar system like many of the other You Tube channels say. Actually some people will be sad that 1I is not coming back to our Solar system.
@joshe465 23 күн бұрын
Since our sun is a main sequence star fusing hydrogen into helium, doesn’t that mean virtually everything around us came in on an ISO at some point?
@davidhand9721 Ай бұрын
There must be only one artistic rendering of Oamuamua. I only ever see that one.
@champagneoubre6495 2 күн бұрын
im so high rn that i thought the thing in the thumbnail was a blunt, great video tho.
@lekiscool Ай бұрын
What I’m hearing is that outside our solar system, its really cold.
@undrhil5281 Ай бұрын
On a Celestial scale, I think Earth is pretty rare in the solar system
@annakeye Ай бұрын
Comet Bowell and Uranus. There's a joke in there.
@ralph.aguinaldomd Ай бұрын
I swear the rarest object in the solar system is the actual Sun 😂
@dawsie Ай бұрын
Gosh can you imagine if we could have been able to tag it with a dash cam to collect data to be sent back to earth best part is we would only need the power to run the tag as the asteroid is doing all the work of travailing for us.
@robhowell339 Ай бұрын
What about that moon of Uranus or Neptune that revolves the opposite direction to all the other moons?
@sergetheijspartner2005 Ай бұрын
Did we track it to where it could have been coming from? I mean if you know the trajectory, hyperbolic or and other form, can't we trace it back?
@TheMoonRover 20 күн бұрын
It's not that simple. Even if it came directly from one of the closest stars (which it didn't), that's still thousands of years ago. Stars are constantly moving and affecting each other's orbits, and these rocks have probably been travelling through interstellar space for millions of years. It's not really possible to extrapolate backwards on those sorts of timescales.
@selenemoon2832 Ай бұрын
That's a joint
@kataseiko Ай бұрын
Maybe some day they'll manage to catch an interstellar object.
@Omnifarious0 Ай бұрын
6:24 - We, as in humanity as a whole might well figure out someday whether those objects really are of interstellar origin or not. I'm certain that knowing more about the solar system as a whole and those objects in particular would enable us to firmly place them in one category or the other. Some things we'll never know for sure because the evidence is too mixed up to ever feasibly untangle it. But I don't think the origin of these objects is like that.
@SubtleMischief Ай бұрын
He is working so hard on the pronunciation.
@scottbrady6240 23 күн бұрын
I SWEAR THIS VIDEO SAW ME THE OTHER DAY
@I_am_Allan Ай бұрын
Nice medicine pouch.
@stanleyzgierski3076 Ай бұрын
I have a question: How much heavier does earth get every year? From space dust and meteorites?
@peeperleviathan2839 Ай бұрын
I heard somewhere it’s about 300 tons
@bomafett Ай бұрын
How do they distinguish an ISO from something that originated in the Oort cloud?
@phaedrus000 Ай бұрын
They are traveling faster than the solar system's escape velocity. Which leaves only 2 options. Something very massive like a planet gave them a gravitational assist, like we did to get the Voyager probes on a trajectory out of the solar system (I'm assuming scientists ruled this out based on their position relative to the positions of the planets), or they must have come from outside the solar system.
@bomafett Ай бұрын
@@phaedrus000 Thank you! Of course, this assumes there is not a planet sized object in the Oort cloud that could accelerate objects, no?
@phaedrus000 Ай бұрын
@@bomafett I think so, but I'm definitely not enough of an expert to say. But that does make sense. If Planet X is out there, then I suppose maybe these could be from our Oort Cloud.
@General12th Ай бұрын
Hi Reid! This feels familiar.
@carnsoaks1 Ай бұрын
Cosmic rays, Extra Solar Particles do irritate my skin.
@robokaos69 Ай бұрын
Someone knew what they were doing with this thumbnail
@stevenbain8798 Ай бұрын
Halicona plant, flamingo shirt, Maui hook… brah you on island?
@korstmahler Ай бұрын
So what you're telling me is that we need an interstellar ICE to spot interstellar ice? I'll let the space forces know.
@retmarut4499 26 күн бұрын
I wonder why scientists are so certain that Oumuamua is an interstellar object. Couldn't it be an oort object which was driven off course by a collision? As far as I know the Oort cloud is more a sphere than a torus around the sun so objects originating there could come from any direction.
@TheMoonRover 20 күн бұрын
A sufficiently large collision would be incredibly unlikely, would require the other object to have been moving at an even higher velocity in order to divert it, and also would have resulted in an expanding cloud of dust rather than a solid object.
@retmarut4499 20 күн бұрын
@@TheMoonRover ok, thanks for the clarification.
@megarural3000 Ай бұрын
So it was a skipping stone.
@TripNBallsGaming Ай бұрын
My hypothesis is that Oumuamua is a giant space turd.
@darksecret965 Ай бұрын
"We will make a wall and make the Proxima Centauri-ans pay for it"
@Arkie80 Ай бұрын
Astronomers will also tell you Carbon is a metal...
@akmalhafizbinmohdarif663 Ай бұрын
I didnt know that the "gypsy king " is really good at science.
@lucasdegennaro 25 күн бұрын
The voice of this man is amazing
@alterbr33d Ай бұрын
Is Sedna an ISO?
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