Adam Hibberd
There is this theory about ‘Oumuamua that certain parties seem to be pursuing quite aggressively despite there being little or no evidence to substantiate it, in fact it can be quite easily shown to be incorrect.
This idea is that ‘Oumuamua ISN’T AN INTERSTELLAR OBJECT at all but a SPENT ROCKET STAGE used in some interplanetary mission by NASA or some other space agency, which has received a gravity assist (GA) from one or a combination of encounters of the planets Mercury, Venus or Jupiter.
Let me now try and break it to you parties gently that you are all entirely wrong and what’s more you are totally deluding yourselves.
So first of all, if you back-track ‘Oumuamua’s trajectory it can be shown quite conclusively that it came NOWHERE NEAR the planets Mercury, Venus or Jupiter, thus ruling out any combination of GAs from these planets. Go here for instance.
I helpfully and respectfully suggest that you all look into QUANTIFYING precisely some way in which your suggested mechanism could boost the speed of ‘Oumuamua (or spent rocket stage) to such an extent that it achieves a speed WAY IN EXCESS of the Solar System ESCAPE SPEED.
I also suggest to you that as far as Jupiter is concerned, you could look into a metric called the TISSERAND PARAMETER, which when calculated for a Jupiter reference would establish (POSSIBLY) whether ‘Oumuamua came from an encounter with Jupiter.
Finally I suggest you do a paper on the subject and get it peer-reviewed.
Instead of doing any of these useful suggestions please don’t keep coming back at me, time and time again!
I am trying to help here, what else am I to do?