Posted on 11/06/2025 7:10:07 AM PST by Red Badger
❓WHAT HAPPENED:
An interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, has picked up speed unexpectedly as it moves away from the sun and closer to Earth, defying gravitational predictions.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: NASA scientists, Harvard physicist Avi Loeb, and astronomers tracking the object.
📍WHEN & WHERE: The object reached perihelion on October 29, 2025, and is now six weeks away from its closest approach to Earth.
💬KEY QUOTE: “If 3I/ATLAS is not enshrouded in a much more massive gas cloud after perihelion than it had in the months preceding perihelion, then its recent non-gravitational acceleration must have resulted from a different cause than cometary evaporation.” – Avi Loeb
🎯IMPACT: The object’s unexplained movements and composition raise questions about its nature, with some suggesting it could be an extraterrestrial craft.
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IN FULL
The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has been observed accelerating as it moves away from the sun and closer to Earth, according to NASA. This unexpected speed increase has shifted the object off its predicted path, defying the gravitational forces of the sun, which contains the majority of the solar system’s mass.
3I/ATLAS, initially recorded as the fastest space object entering the solar system at over 130,000 mph, has now reached speeds of around 152,000 mph after its closest approach to the sun on October 29. While NASA attributes the speed boost primarily to the sun’s gravity, the object’s noticeable deviation from its expected trajectory remains unexplained.
Harvard physicist Avi Loeb has pointed out that astronomers have yet to find sufficient evidence of gas emissions from the object, which would typically indicate a cometary nature. “If 3I/ATLAS is not enshrouded in a much more massive gas cloud after perihelion than it had in the months preceding perihelion, then its recent non-gravitational acceleration must have resulted from a different cause than cometary evaporation,” Loeb stated.
The object has exhibited unusual characteristics, including turning blue as it approached the sun, rather than red like typical comets. It also has a massive estimated weight of 33 billion tons, with a composition of nickel and carbon dioxide, unlike the ice and water found in comets formed in our solar system. These anomalies have led some, including Loeb, to theorize that it could be a nuclear-powered ‘mothership’ created by an alien intelligence.
NASA’s latest data shows that the mysterious push on 3I/ATLAS weakened after it passed perihelion, yet it remains detectable. The James Webb Space Telescope is set to observe the object in December to search for any gas cloud that could explain its movements. However, Loeb and others continue to question whether the object’s behavior and composition might point to a non-natural origin.
I still have a scar on my now bald head from that little bastard! Preacher’s kids!..................
It's called Gravity Assist.
And profit from the books he writes for "True Believers".
So Harvard has an employee who’s as kooky as kooky gets... And he’s on the payroll. Reminds me of the University of New Brunswick who kept Stanton T. Friedman the infamous Physicist and Alien believer on the payroll... Despite his lunatic Alien beliefs.
There are some people out there who walk that fine line between genius and insanity... And Stanton walked on both sides of it.
...and locked the doors!
We have used this kind of slingshot maneuver with multiple spacecraft we’ve launched. Using the sun, or Jupiter and Saturn, among others. It means it can also occur naturally with space objects.
IMPOSSIBLE! NASA is shut down...
You just might be onto something. There was a huge surge in far side solar activity while 3I Atlas was over that side.
The CMEs and such could have impacted it and kicked it in the pants.
Clearly the space aliens have figured out how to get a more than gravitational boost from a star...
Even physics has been polluted by DEI...
I don’t know if it’s DEI or just plain random stupidity.............
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” - Robert Heinlein..............
They sped up because they got a dose of Congress & determined there’s no intelligent life here.
...but don't completely rule out malice!!!
In some cases can be BOTH!................
Appeal to a harvard professor is certainly a fallacy. Remember John Mack Harvard psychiatrist assured us that there were millions of us abducted by aliens.
It’s finally coming...
Fired by Bugs Bunny nemisis, Marvin The Martian, has fired the “Pew-36 Electronic Space Modulator” (pronounced in deep child’s voice).
Because everything else we’ve ever seen flying around the solar system is a rock.
When you hear hoofbeats…you think horses, not zebras.
I cannot wait for all THAT stuff to start being talked about. I guess those folks don’t realize that the time for the birth of Christ is more likely to have been in late summer/early autumn.
All of our constructs are man made.
The universe is full of wonders that we haven’t seen. We need to be careful not to overreact to every one as they are discovered. This is the third interstellar thing that we’ve observed. I am pretty sure thats really not enough data to make many assumptions.
Wait until you see the carrier.
Thats a big twinkie
'Anything I can't explain is an alien, a ghost, or bigfoot'. - every True Believer
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