This 2018 illustration provided by William Hartmann and Michael Belton shows a depiction of the Oumuamua interstellar object as a pancake-shaped disk.
A study published in March 2021 says the mystery object is likely a remnant of a Pluto-like world and shaped like a cookie.
A new study says the mystery object is likely a remnant of a Pluto-like world and shaped like a cookie.
Those are the rough proportions of one wafer of an Oreo cookie, Desch noted.
By the time the object starts leaving our solar system around 2040, the width-to-thickness ratio will have dropped to 10-to-1, according to Desch.