Chapter 217: A Fragment
"You ran into an asteroid?" Wei Feng asked with some confusion: "Please tell me, when you met, what was the distance between us and the sun?" ”
"It's about 1.5 trillion kilometers." Ye Luo replied.
"Fifteen trillion kilometers away...... Wei Feng muttered the number, and a little wave ran in his heart, "When you discovered it, what was its speed, and what about the orbital period?" Did perihelion and aphelion be calculated? ”
"I can't quite confirm these things, but based on the data available so far, it doesn't seem to revolve around the sun. It has an extremely flat orbit relative to the Sun, so that it will either end up crashing directly into the Sun, or returning to deep space after passing the Sun at close range, leaving the solar system and never returning. ”
Hearing Ye Luo's answer, Wei Feng's heart was a little disappointed. Because if it is determined by calculations that this irregular asteroid is revolving around the sun, then many things can be analyzed from its orbit so far away. If it can be established that it came from a place tens of thousands of astronomical units from the Sun, the existence of the Oort cloud will be confirmed - do not forget that even now, no Oort cloud object has been observed or obtained by human civilization, and the Oort cloud is still a concept that exists only in speculation.
If the Oort cloud is indeed confirmed, it will be a great astronomical discovery. And if this asteroid had only come to the solar system by chance due to gravitational disturbances from the rest of the galaxies, its value, although still extremely high, would have been much lower than the previous ones.
But this adds a bit of mystery to the asteroid. A small, dark and icy celestial body. It took perhaps hundreds of millions of years to get from a distant unknown star system. I traveled an unknown number of light-years to the solar system. And according to Ye Luo, something "unusual" was found from it, then...... What the hell are these things?
To this question, Ye Luo replied: "You can see it with your own eyes." Do you have enough stamina right now? ”
Since Ye Luo asked this question, it shows that what was found in that irregular asteroid is really important, so important that if Wei Feng has enough physical strength at this moment, then he should check it immediately.
Of course. In Ye Luo's judging system, although that thing is important, it is not so important that it will wake up Wei Feng halfway. Otherwise, Wei Feng would have woken up a few years ago.
Wei Feng said: "I don't have anything, I'll go and see that thing now." ”
"Okay, I've put them in a vacuum-sealed box, you can go there and have a look."
The vacuum-sealed box is a specially designed analytical device made of six pieces of glass, one of which has two openings on top and two special sealing plastic gloves attached to it. Wei Feng can pass through those two openings. Manipulate things obtained from irregular asteroids directly in a vacuum through sealed plastic gloves.
With the assistance of the model pushing robot, it took Weifeng more than ten minutes to come to the vacuum sealed box. All the interstellar dust material taken from the irregular asteroid has been placed there. That's some space dust or something. It was scattered there like a pile of sand. There was something like ice crystals in the sand, and I don't know if it was water ice or what.
Ye Luo said: "The vacuum-sealed box maintains an environment that is not much different from space, and I have done my best to preserve their original appearance. ”
Wei Feng heard Ye Luo's words, but Wei Feng didn't make any response to this. The moment he came to the vacuum-sealed box, Wei Feng was attracted to all his attention by a strange thing inside. That thing seemed to have a huge magical power, and it instantly locked Wei Feng's sight, so that Wei Feng's eyes couldn't leave for a moment.
"You can guarantee ...... Did you really find this thing from an irregular asteroid that was 1.5 trillion kilometers away from the sun and came here from an unknown corner of the universe? Wei Feng asked a little sluggishly.
"You know me, I never lie." Ye Luo replied.
Ye Luo is an artificial intelligence program, and it certainly doesn't lie. Wei Feng asked this question completely subconsciously, and as soon as this question was spoken, Wei Feng realized his mistake.
Wei Feng slowly walked to the vacuum-sealed box, put his hand into the glove, picked up the thing through the glove, and then looked at it carefully.
It was a piece of black iron, slightly curved and with irregular edges. It is about five centimeters long and about three centimeters wide at its widest point. Wei Feng gently wiped away the debris on it, and its pale silver original brilliance was revealed.
This is undoubtedly a fragment, and a fragment of extreme strength. Such fragments can only be made by extremely high-tech means, and now ...... What does it mean that it was found from within such an asteroid that came from nowhere?
This seems to mean a very simple thing, that is, there is an extremely high-tech civilization in the depths of the unknown universe, and for some reason, they lost this fragment to this asteroid. I don't know why, this asteroid left its original place, and after a long cosmic journey, it finally came to the solar system, encountered the Xinghai spacecraft, and finally appeared in front of Wei Feng's eyes.
Wei Feng hesitated and asked Ye Luo, "During the time I was asleep, we still haven't found any extraterrestrial civilizations, right?" ”
Ye Luo replied, "Yes." At least in my database, I can't find any evidence of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations. Our human civilization has never found evidence of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations. ”
"So...... We now have evidence of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations. Wei Feng held the fragment and muttered, "This is the most powerful evidence, and no one can refute it." ”
"Perhaps. But I think it's time for us to analyze it, as well as the asteroid wreckage, as soon as possible, to determine the age of its formation, its material composition, etc. Ye Luo said.
"Okay, I'm going to analyze it. You're here to help me. Wei Feng replied.
With the help of Ye Luo, Wei Feng used a variety of scientific instruments to carry out the most detailed examination of these things. Tests suggest that the unknown fragment was made about 500 to 600 million years ago - by measuring the decay of the elements that make it up. And through the analysis of stress and other means, Wei Feng determined that it was torn off from a larger object after being subjected to an extremely violent impact.
"When it was first made, it was very strong. Its material properties are even better than the impact armor of our Xinghai spacecraft. There is very little sign of reacting with oxygen on one side of the material, but not on the other, suggesting that the material has been in contact with oxygen or oxygen-containing gas on one side and the cosmic vacuum on the other side for a long time. This seems to imply that it is the outer armor of a spaceship, and most likely that the civilization that made this material also needs oxygen to survive. At the same time, the results of the instrumental examination showed that it was torn out because the side where it was in contact with the oxygen-containing gas was subjected to an extremely violent impact of high temperature and high heat, which ruled out the possibility of tearing caused by external impact. I think it's most likely that the impact of the ship's internal explosion tore it apart. ”
Wei Feng was like a detective, and he analyzed a lot of things through some extremely faint signs on this piece of fragment. In Wei Feng's description, Wei Feng roughly restored the origin of this fragment.
It presumably comes from the exterior armor of a spaceship. Because of an explosion from the inside of the spacecraft, it was torn apart and splashed into space, and finally embedded in the asteroid, and after another 5 to 600 million years, it was finally discovered by itself and came into its own hands.
Wei Feng couldn't be sure that his guess was completely correct, and what Wei Feng made was only the most likely one. Of course, some accidental possibilities cannot be ruled out, such as that it is actually a fragment of a vacuum-sealed device, so that it may also be in contact with oxygen on one side and vacuum on the other, but the side that touches the vacuum becomes internal. For example, the impact of a meteorite can also cause it to be forced from the inside and then tear apart, without necessarily requiring an explosion from the inside. It's just that these possibilities are much smaller, so Wei Feng finally chose his previous speculation.
Wei Feng believes that he previously speculated that the degree of novelty was at least as high as 60%.
If that's all there is to it, Wei Feng doesn't have anything difficult to accept, after all, this universe is too mysterious, and no one can guarantee that there is no extraterrestrial civilization with super high technology in a corner of the universe. But further detection of the asteroid's material gave Wei Feng a somewhat unbelievable answer.
"Captain, the results tell me that by examining the detailed material composition of this asteroid, I have come to the conclusion that there is an 82 percent probability that this asteroid formed in the solar system. Because its material composition is too similar to that of the material in our solar system. "It may have come from the Oort cloud to the inner solar system. (To be continued......)