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3I Atlas gets Stranger than Oumuamua! NEW Path Data warn of potential Not just a 'Comet'?

3I Atlas gets Stranger than Oumuamua! NEW Path Data warn of potential Not just a 'Comet'? === #techmap #spacex #starship #spacexlive #oumuamua #atlas === Credit: Music: Cylinder Two by Chris Zabriskie license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ === 3I Atlas gets Stranger than Oumuamua! NEW Path Data warn of potential Not just a 'Comet'? Since the discovery of ʻOumuamua — the first known interstellar object detected in 2017 — the third interstellar visitor, 3I/ATLAS, discovered in July 2025, has sparked great curiosity among researchers. Unlike its predecessors, 3I/ATLAS is significantly larger and, notably, displays the typical activity of a natural comet as it approaches the Sun. This may be the oldest interstellar object ever observed, carrying unprecedented clues about its formation history and its journey through the vast expanse between the stars. 3I Atlas gets Stranger than Oumuamua! NEW Path Data warn of potential Not just a 'Comet'? So far, observational data on the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has become increasingly detailed, especially regarding its orbital path, which has astonished astronomers. The object was first detected by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) station in Río Hurtado, Chile, as it was heading into the inner Solar System at a distance of 4.5 astronomical units (about 670 million km) from the Sun — near Jupiter’s orbit (5.2 AU). Remarkably, 3I/ATLAS travels on an open hyperbolic trajectory, meaning it will pass through the Solar System only once and never return. Its hyperbolic excess velocity has been measured at about 58–60 km/s relative to the Sun — significantly faster than the two previous interstellar objects, 1I/ʻOumuamua (26 km/s) and 2I/Borisov (32 km/s) — further confirming its origin outside the Solar System. Even more unusually, its trajectory is retrograde, moving opposite to the direction of planetary orbits around the Sun, and is almost perfectly aligned with Earth’s orbital plane. In addition, it passes very close to the orbits of major planets such as Jupiter, Mars, and Venus. 3I Atlas gets Stranger than Oumuamua! NEW Path Data warn of potential Not just a 'Comet'? The combination of these factors — open trajectory, extreme speed, retrograde motion, and rare planet-crossing geometry — is estimated to occur with a probability of only about 1 in 20,000, making 3I/ATLAS an exceptionally rare phenomenon that has attracted great scientific interest and raised new questions about future interstellar visitors. According to experts, 3I/ATLAS is expected to reach perihelion — its closest approach to the Sun — in late October 2025, at a distance of about 1.4 astronomical units. Speculatively, one hypothesis has been proposed by Professor Avi Loeb of Harvard University, who believes that 3I/ATLAS could possibly have an artificial origin — perhaps a type of probe built by an extraterrestrial civilization and sent to survey the Solar System. Based on this hypothesis, some suggest that 3I/ATLAS might take advantage of temporary solar occultation to alter its course and head toward Earth. After all, if it were a disguised technological object from an alien species, one could not rule out the possibility of it stealthily redirecting its mission toward our blue planet using some advanced form of camouflage. In line with this idea, Avi Loeb has not hesitated to offer some of the most intriguing and in-depth explanations.