Mega structure found

[Anomalocaris]

I saw this earlier in the day. It's such an unusual situation. The strongest theory so far to explain the data is that another star passed very close to the system and disrupted a shit-load of comets which are causing the data. I wonder about an unknown stellar phenomena related to sunspots causing the unusual light dip. I mean a 15% and 22% drop? It would take two dozen Jupiters to do that or thousands of comets if a natural phenomena or something like a Dyson Sphere if it's artificial. Whatever it is, it's VERY unusual.

Determination of possible modes of complex orbital behavior amongst a system of many object is essentially a computation trial and error process.  There is no closed form analytical solution that can enumerate all the possible modes there can be.   It is unlikely we would have guessed that many such modes could exist until we first see them in action.

For example, the Shepherd moons of saturn's rings exhibit a complex interaction between moons, rings, and clumping of ring material that was never dreamt of until we saw it in real time with voyager photography.   It is unlikely anyone would have imagined such behavior existed in nature even now were it not for photograph showing it in action.

So I strongly suspect the so called large object periodically blocking the light from that star consist of a natural swarm of small objects, like asteroids or comets, kept clumped and prevented from dispersing into a ring, by something complex, as yet unimagined, gravitational interplay with some system of a few large natural objects.

I propose some rough idea of this could be to get you thinking.   For example, there may be a Jovian plant orbits that star, and a large asteroid or escaped moon, or even another planet, occupies a lagrangian position in its orbit.   These two objects would then form a stable gravitational formation, and together they gravitationally shepherd a large swarm of objects in a similar orbit around that star, and cause them to clump and prevent them from spreading out uniformly into a debris disk, in a manner similar to the sheparding moons of saturn's rings.

So you have a large natural clump of objects that doesn't dissipate over time, thanks to shepherding actions of the co-orbiting planet and its lagrangian mate.  This clump would then periodically block the light for the star for extended periods.

Another possibility might be the star does actually have a complete, but wide and very thin ring of debris surrounding it. We see the ring almost edge on, so it is essentially invisible most of the time. But there is a large planet orbiting near the ring, and its gravity raises a wave in the ring. And what we are seeing is the wave in the ring blocking the light from the star as the planet passes.

These are just pure conjectures. But I think they illustrate the sort of complex interplay that has to be eliminated before we resort to aliens.