OUMUAMUA, DAGGER OF DEATH

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Path-of-Oumuamua

OUMUAMUA (1I/2017U1) Dagger of Death

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Oumuamua, dagger from space,

is flung at its target end over end –

too fast for any rocket to outpace.

Earth, spun within the Sun’s disc, can’t defend

against this object just recently spied

(though it is the size of a football field) –

a blade ten times as long as it is wide –

packing an impact of megaton yield.

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Its name translates to messenger or scout.

Appearing like a harbinger of doom,

from interstellar space it came about,

missing Earth by a tiny bit of room.

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Though this did cause some brief consternation,

it’s fading now from our observation.

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more info at:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBOumuamua

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James Ph. Kotsybar's haiku achieved Martian orbit on September 22, 2014, becoming the first literature to another world, aboard NASA's MAVEN spacecraft. His poem, "Martian Connoisseur" has been circling the Red Planet for over 1,000 Earth days, however, Guinness Book of World Records, the Nobel Committee and Pulitzer Prize Directors have yet to weigh in on this record accomplishment. More information on MAVEN is available from https://mars.nasa.gov/maven/