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Scientists baffled as interstellar visitor mysteriously SHRINKS ahead of Earth flyby [3I/ATLAS]
Daily Mail ^ | 7 November 2025 | By CHRIS MELORE, US ASSISTANT SCIENCE EDITOR

Posted on 11/07/2025 10:26:40 AM PST by Ezekiel

Shocking new images of the interstellar visitor have revealed that it has mysteriously shrunk in size weeks ahead of its closest approach to Earth.

NASA recently calculated the change, noting it shed 13 percent of its material after 3I/ATLAS soaring past the sun last month.

Harvard Professor Avi Loeb, who has been analyzing the object since the summer, noted that this sudden shrinkage was directly tied to the noticeable change in the interstellar object's course as it moved closer to the sun.

'For a typical comet, this should have resulted in a massive coma with dust and gas that would have been pushed by the solar radiation pressure and the solar wind to the shape of a typical cometary tail pointing away from the sun,' he said in a blog post.

'No such tail is visible in the new images from November 5, 2025.'

3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to our planet on December 19, just six weeks from now.

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While one strange oddity being seen in a comet could be explained by science, Loeb noted that the odds of 3I/ATLAS displaying 10 strange anomalies at the same time are astronomical and point to the object being created by a distant intelligence.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Conspiracy; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: 3eyedatlas; 3iatlas; alienoverlords; comet; interstellar; naturalobject; spaceinvaderswelcome

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1 posted on 11/07/2025 10:26:40 AM PST by Ezekiel
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To: Ezekiel

They mass-shift because the Stardrive is using frozen water to drive the fusion-reactor and slow the craft. DUH!


2 posted on 11/07/2025 10:33:17 AM PST by 50sDad (A Liberal prevents me from telling you anything here)
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To: Ezekiel

I have no clue what this thing is, but it should have a tail.


3 posted on 11/07/2025 10:33:19 AM PST by roving
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To: Ezekiel

Chris Melore is the Assistant Science Editor at Daily Mail. He was previously a writer and editor at StudyFinds.com. Chris has also worked in sports and local TV news in the New York area, winning an Emmy Award in 2010.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/profile-3590/chris-melore.html

Okaaaaay...


4 posted on 11/07/2025 10:34:49 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ )
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To: Ezekiel

Elaine Benes, Seinfeld, “it shrinks”?

https://www.tiktok.com/@cashholler/video/7218342843809680683?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc


5 posted on 11/07/2025 10:36:00 AM PST by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. https://youtu.be/VexKSRKoWQY)
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To: mewzilla

https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/3i-atlas/

When it’s a choice between NASA and the Daily Fail...

Not even close.


6 posted on 11/07/2025 10:36:45 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ )
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To: 50sDad
They mass-shift because the Stardrive is using frozen water to drive the fusion-reactor and slow the craft. DUH!

Yeah, the scientists should get back to us when they observe the object making mid-course corrections.

Regards,

7 posted on 11/07/2025 10:37:01 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: SunkenCiv; Red Badger
'No such tail is visible in the new images from November 5, 2025.'

Where we're going we don't need tails ping!

8 posted on 11/07/2025 10:37:11 AM PST by Ezekiel (๐Ÿ†˜๏ธ "Come fly with US". ๐Ÿ”ด Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS โ™‚๏ธ, aka every man)
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To: Ezekiel

I think Iโ€™ll still pay my bills this month, no bets on December, though.


9 posted on 11/07/2025 10:38:49 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It! Iโ€™m )
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To: redshawk

LOL.


10 posted on 11/07/2025 10:42:42 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

Cloaking device malfunction


11 posted on 11/07/2025 10:43:30 AM PST by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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To: Ezekiel

The third extra-solar system piece of rock/ice (?), and we are drawing all kinds of conclusions!

Premature ejaculation?


12 posted on 11/07/2025 10:45:59 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: alexander_busek

“Yeah, the scientists should get back to us when they observe the object making mid-course corrections.”

Agreed. I see no evidence yet of an alien probe but we will get more data over the next month.

My hope is that the government and the aliens would just leave us alone.


13 posted on 11/07/2025 10:46:57 AM PST by plain talk
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To: mewzilla

“When itโ€™s a choice between NASA and the Daily Fail...”

Yep, always trust the government to tell you the truth. :)


14 posted on 11/07/2025 10:51:17 AM PST by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: Ezekiel
...it shed 13 percent of its material...
IOW, there's nothing left but rock -- no water, no volatiles. Probably its first close stellar encounter.

15 posted on 11/07/2025 10:56:04 AM PST by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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Perhaps it spotted brabra Streisand.

I’d shrink, too.


16 posted on 11/07/2025 10:57:27 AM PST by RandallFlagg (Democrats should have been barred from elections since The Battle Of Athens.)
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To: dljordan

I used to trust the media to tell me the truth, tell us the truth.

But now I’ve seen the payoffs everywhere I look

Who do you trust when everyone’s a crook?


17 posted on 11/07/2025 11:00:57 AM PST by algore
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To: 50sDad

Just wait til their shields go up!


18 posted on 11/07/2025 11:12:13 AM PST by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now,)
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To: redshawk

like a frightened turtle


19 posted on 11/07/2025 11:16:09 AM PST by Jeff Vader
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To: Ezekiel

Does it look like the planet eater on Star Trek?


20 posted on 11/07/2025 11:19:56 AM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...x)
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