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To: V_TWIN

Linky no worky.


6 posted on 09/29/2025 11:18:15 AM PDT by gdzla (Tyrannis Seditio, Obsequium Deo)
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https://nypost.com/2025/09/29/science/comet-and-potential-alien-probe-3i-atlas-larger-than-predicted/


10 posted on 09/29/2025 11:20:04 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: 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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