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The mass budget necessary to explain 'Oumuamua as a nitrogen iceberg
Amir Siraj, Abraham Loeb, 2022. New Astronomy.
Argues that the mass of exo-Plutos needed to make nitrogen-ice fragments common enough to be seen would exceed the heavy-element mass locked in stars, at 95 per cent confidence. New Astronomy 92, 101730.
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The main objection to the nitrogen-ice reading; Desch and Jackson dispute the accounting.
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Siraj, A., & Loeb, A. (2022). The mass budget necessary to explain 'Oumuamua as a nitrogen iceberg. New Astronomy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newast.2021.101730
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Siraj, Amir and Abraham Loeb. “The mass budget necessary to explain 'Oumuamua as a nitrogen iceberg.” New Astronomy (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newast.2021.101730.