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‘Massive’ comet hurtling toward us is larger than previously thought, could be alien tech, scientist says: ‘It could change everything for us’
nypost.com ^ | Sep. 29, 2025 | Ben Cost

Posted on 09/29/2025 11:15:02 AM PDT by V_TWIN

We’re gonna need a bigger telescope.

Scientists have discovered that the 3I/ATLAS — a Manhattan-sized interstellar object that potentially has alien tech — is much larger than previously thought, according to a new report.

First discovered by NASA on July 1, the cosmic anomaly has been under watch by Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb and his team as it shoots across the solar system. The object, which is believed to be a comet, reportedly has interstellar origins, making it the third ever object from beyond the solar system ever detected after ‘Oumuamua, which was discovered in 2017, and 2I/Borisov in 2019.

Now the team has gleaned some “sizable” new intel on the interstellar visitor, namely that the “mass of 3I/ATLAS must be bigger than 33 billion tons,” per a blog post by Loeb.

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To: plain talk

And it’s not really a comet, which are usually big ice blocks. It’s more likely just a piece of asteroid.


41 posted on 09/29/2025 11:34:46 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: tired&retired

when it goes behind the Sun on Oct 29th what does this mean?


42 posted on 09/29/2025 11:34:55 AM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (DONT DRINK & DRONE 🤓 HAVE A NICE DAY 😀 GATORS WITH LAZERS)
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To: tired&retired

when it goes behind the Sun on Oct 29th what does this mean?


43 posted on 09/29/2025 11:35:01 AM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (DONT DRINK & DRONE 🤓 HAVE A NICE DAY 😀 GATORS WITH LAZERS)
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To: V_TWIN

I’m ready, are you?

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44 posted on 09/29/2025 11:36:02 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: crusty old prospector

Lol


45 posted on 09/29/2025 11:36:28 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Nervous Tick

46 posted on 09/29/2025 11:37:01 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: V_TWIN

It’s a Manhattan-sized comet but we don’t know who sent it to us...so we don’t know where to send the $24 worth of trinkets.


47 posted on 09/29/2025 11:39:16 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: V_TWIN

Wish it would hurry up and get here.


48 posted on 09/29/2025 11:40:15 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: V_TWIN

Lucifer’s Hammer ...


49 posted on 09/29/2025 11:41:02 AM PDT by bankwalker (Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
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To: thesligoduffyflynns

RE: ...behind the Sun ... what does this mean?

It’s a big sphere in the sky that gives off a lot of light, but that’s not important now.

An Airplane reference hopefully will take the stress off here.


50 posted on 09/29/2025 11:41:45 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Why are “scientists” and “experts” so hungry for attention? Every 10 minutes it’s something else.


51 posted on 09/29/2025 11:42:25 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: Red Badger

ROFL! Keeper!!


52 posted on 09/29/2025 11:43:49 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: crusty old prospector

https://www.instagram.com/p/DNEtfKxSv25/


53 posted on 09/29/2025 11:44:03 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: gdzla

https://avi-loeb.medium.com/news-on-3i-atlas-lack-of-non-gravitational-acceleration-implies-an-anomalously-massive-object-7ad320e69cef

This suggests that 3I/ATLAS is more massive than the other two interstellar objects, 1I/`Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov by 3–5 orders of magnitude, constituting a major anomaly. Given the limited reservoir of heavy elements, we should have discovered on the order of a hundred thousand interstellar objects on the 0.1-kilometer scale of 1I/`Oumuamua before finding 3I/ATLAS, yet we only detected two interstellar objects previously.

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Momentum conservation implies that 3I/ATLAS must be massive in order not to be pushed back by the flow of material from its warmed Sun-facing side. I assumed a high collimation of the evaporated materials because the glow of scattered light in the Hubble Space Telescope image was twice longer towards the Sun than it is wide, at a viewing angle of 10 degrees. Since [1/sin(10 degrees)]=5.8, the elongation in the plume ahead of 3I/ATLAS must have been 10 times longer than it is wide. This jet-like structure suggests a high collimation.


So, is it a threat or not?


54 posted on 09/29/2025 11:44:31 AM PDT by GOPJ (Charlie Kirk worried democrats would murder his children-no face pictures <P><I><B><big><center></B>)
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To: thesligoduffyflynns

Its a staging point, assault carriers of this size would waste too much fuel slowing down so they use a stars gravity.

Using the opposite side of the sun as a protected site less likely for planetary inhabitants defenses to be able to target the initial wave they will first launch survey drones followed closely by superiority fighters.

By mid October the next wave of tactical weapons delivery craft will have spread the transformation spores around the globe and the intitial wave of terrestrial walkers will land.

answer based on “Divertir les Démons de L’Espace” by Jacques Vallee

(Im really just tweaking a couple of other FReepers)


55 posted on 09/29/2025 11:47:12 AM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hivemind liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives select servants.)
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To: Red Badger

Airplane 2?


56 posted on 09/29/2025 11:47:42 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
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To: Phoenix8

There are many days I wish for a new planet. And I get it choose who can come with me.


57 posted on 09/29/2025 11:49:06 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Red Badger

58 posted on 09/29/2025 11:49:57 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: V_TWIN

The NY post is milking this story for everything it’s worth.


59 posted on 09/29/2025 11:50:55 AM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's ok---- I wasn't married to it.)
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To: proust; All

Well if you’re at a academic institution its how productivity is “demonstrated”. Note I didn’t say this was a good measure but’s its one of the common measures. Also at an academic institution the school PR department is always looking for something to write about. If its not sports they’re often at a loss for something to prove their productivity. So they write “golly gee whiz look at this” articles on the academic research going on. Often very inaccurate but long on hyperbole, exaggeration, metaphor and things to grab people’s attention. Which is how every press person writes these days.


60 posted on 09/29/2025 11:51:02 AM PDT by Reily
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