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[Bumber]

It'd probably be funny to name it that, but nope, it's name is basically Hawaiian for 'first visitor from the stars' (that we've recorded that is). Literal translation though is 'a messenger from afar arriving first'. https://www.axios.com/the-first-asteroid-seen-from-outside-earths-solar-system-takes-bizarre-shape-2511132598.html

It's also got this long spindle shape, which is pretty unusual for an asteroid. The image is an artist conception of it.

Clicked expecting dick, got cigar. Your move, Freud.

[wierd]

It'd probably be funny to name it that, but nope, it's name is basically Hawaiian for 'first visitor from the stars' (that we've recorded that is). Literal translation though is 'a messenger from afar arriving first'. https://www.axios.com/the-first-asteroid-seen-from-outside-earths-solar-system-takes-bizarre-shape-2511132598.html

It's also got this long spindle shape, which is pretty unusual for an asteroid. The image is an artist conception of it.

Clicked expecting dick, got cigar. Your move, Freud.

[smjjames]

Lol, not sure how you associated dick shaped with spindle shaped.

[LordBaal]

I for one, don't really want to know.

[Bumber]

Lol, not sure how you associated dick shaped with spindle shaped.

Probably too much of Cracked.com's humorous "artist's conceptions". I kind of skimmed over the spindle part, focusing on "bizarre shape" in the link, instead. Article calls it a cigar.

[smjjames]

I called it spindle rather than cigar shaped as it’s more pointy on the ends, at least that’s the artists conception of it.

[Max™]

Hey, could be worse than a spindle, you could be hung like a squirrel... the whole squirrel, gray fur and all... I think the tail is what scares girls off, personally.

[martinuzz]

Lol, not sure how you associated dick shaped with spindle shaped.

[Starver]

We're Whalers On The Moon INNNN SPAAAAACCCEEEE!

[martinuzz]

I will be both sad and highly amused when that test sattelite collides with space debris before it's mission can begin

[smjjames]

*casts spell of minor necro*

SpaceX may have failed to get an expensive government sat into orbit. Ouch, this is gonna hurt their reputation for a while. At least until they can find out what went wrong.

It's light on details due to it being a classified mission and the main source being WSJ.

[Culise]

Hopefully for SpaceX, it's a Polyus scenario and not a Vanguard.  That is, hopefully the fault is in the payload rather than the launch platform. 

[sluissa]

Spacex claims their rocket performed normally. The rumored problem was either payload or payload adapter related. Both of which were provided by Northrop Grumman.

Also minor speculation it was all a ruse and it's working as a stealth craft.

[smjjames]

Why would they risk damage to their reputation by claiming it was destroyed when it wasn't? Makes no sense to me.

[Magistrum]

Because it is impossible to put something in orbit without everyone knowing.
Both because there aren't that many people that put things in orbit and because anyone can look up.
The current mehod for stealth spacecraft is to send it to orbit and blow it up, scratch it off publicly as an accident and have the payload be obscured from view by the explosion debris.

That is the current consensus, and there are some "failures" that are suspected to be working currently.