It will soon make its closest approach to any planet , which is Mars. The Sun will be in the way so we won't be able to see that. However Nasa is going to use a telescope already in orbit around Mars to take a look.
Posted on 09/21/2025 4:57:09 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Astronomers have been fascinated after spotting an object earlier this year that came from interstellar space as is now hurtling through our inner solar system.
Since then, they've been using powerful telescopes to study the mysterious object, trying to understand its unusual composition and exact origins. Most agree that it's probably a comet, albeit an unusual one, though at least one has posited that it could be a remnant of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization — a colorful claim, but one that NASA has disputed as a flight of fancy.
Regardless, it's an interesting visitor. In a paper presented at the Joint Meeting of the Europlanet Science Congress and the Division of Planetary Sciences last week in Germany, astrophysicist Susanne Pfalzner raised an intriguing possibility: objects like 3I/ATLAS could become the "seeds" of giant planets after being captured in the discs of dust and gas surrounding a young star.
"Interstellar objects may be able to jump-start planet formation, in particular around higher-mass stars," said Pfalzner in a statement.
It's an intriguing hypothesis that could potentially solve more than one mystery surrounding our understanding of how planets form over millions of years, and one that would make these lonely objects traveling vast distances far more influential than previously thought.
According to our current theory of planet formation, smaller particles lump together to form larger objects and eventually planet-sized bodies, a process known as accretion.
However, that doesn't explain why relatively large planets, such as gas giants, have been spotted orbiting young stars. Computer simulations have shown that accreted material tends to shatter and bounce off each other instead of lumping together.
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Hubble has never been used to find such objects.
It will soon make its closest approach to any planet , which is Mars. The Sun will be in the way so we won't be able to see that. However Nasa is going to use a telescope already in orbit around Mars to take a look.
We have become so Godless that people actually believe this stuff.
Panspermia?
There is a theory that the particular gases being released from it, if mixed with the gasses on Mars, could set off a chain reaction that would create an atmosphere on Mars.
It is because of recent efforts to find asteroids which could impact Earth. Now that the Vera Rubin telescope is up and running that effort has been kicked up a notch. It has the capability to photograph the entire sky in detail in less than a week.
Or as Donald Rumsfeld stated: “There’s what you know you know, then what you know you don’t know, and then what you don’t know you don’t know.”
And it “may” be an intergalactic turd.
Oh c’mon man! special sauce from planet Claire.
I think if you unscrew the top, a bunch of springs made to look like snakes jump out.
The top two images are from the telescopes which are being used to find asteroids. These are the same telescopes which discovered 3i-Atlas. The bottom picture is from the Vera Rubin telescope.
New meaning to “Astro Glide”.
Getting some serious gravity would help.
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Yeah...no.
Where do you find these harebrained theories?
NASA would be a great place to save FedGov money.
No loss at all. Let China print the lies.
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