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Looking for Lurkers

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2019-06-17 v2 Popular Physics

Abstract

A recently discovered group of nearby co-orbital objects is an attractive location for extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) to locate a probe to observe Earth while not being easily seen. These near-Earth objects provide an ideal way to watch our world from a secure natural object. That provides resources an ETI might need: materials, a firm anchor, concealment. These have been little studied by astronomy and not at all by SETI or planetary radar observations. I describe these objects found thus far and propose both passive and active observations of them as possible sites for ET probes.

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@article{arxiv.1903.09582,
  title  = {Looking for Lurkers},
  author = {James Benford},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.09582},
  year   = {2019}
}

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14 pages, 7 figures, 1 table

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