{"id":9111,"date":"2018-06-27T23:59:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T03:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9111"},"modified":"2018-06-28T00:00:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T04:00:15","slug":"iilah-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9111","title":{"rendered":"Iilah, part 2?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, <a href=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8733\">I wrote<\/a> about the uncanny resemblance between the interstellar asteroid &#8216;Oumuamua and the fictitious doomsday weapon Iilah in A. E. van Vogt&#8217;s 1948 short story <em>Dormant<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.php?feature=7173\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9112 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Iilah-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Iilah-2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Iilah-2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.php?feature=7173\">I am reading<\/a> that Iilah&#8217;s, I mean, &#8216;Oumuamua&#8217;s trajectory changed due to non-gravitational forces. The suspect is comet-like outgassing, but observations revealed no gas clouds, so it is a bit of a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>Even if this is purely a natural phenomenon (and I firmly believe that it is, just in case it needs to be said) it is nonetheless mind-blowingly fascinating.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9111' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I wrote about the uncanny resemblance between the interstellar asteroid &#8216;Oumuamua and the fictitious doomsday weapon Iilah in A. E. van Vogt&#8217;s 1948 short story Dormant. And now I am reading that Iilah&#8217;s, I mean, &#8216;Oumuamua&#8217;s trajectory changed due to non-gravitational forces. The suspect is comet-like outgassing, but observations revealed no gas <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9111' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-books","category-20-id","category-9-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9114,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9111\/revisions\/9114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}