Interstellar visitor

[gortex]

Hubble managed to get a look better at 3I/Atlas a couple of weeks ago , have to say it is a very un-comet looking comet , maybe its tail will grow when it gets closer to the Sun or maybe it won't.


Astronomers say its ovoid shape is due to its tail I say traveling at 130,000 mph and the camera that captured an object traveling way faster than a speeding bullet may well be the cause of that , it size has also been estimated down to a diameter of no more than 3.5 miles perhaps even as small as 1,000 feet.

If it is our Alien Overlords I do hope it's a case of "we come in peace" and not "Mmmm you look tasty"

[HaarFager]

If it is our Alien Overlords I do hope it's a case of "we come in peace" and not "Mmmm you look tasty"

"It's a COOKBOOK!"

---

[This was a totally different comment not connected with the above reply to Gortex.]:

If it's an asteroid, it could have things going on inside it.

Remember the Star Trek epsiode where the people lived inside an asteroid and didn't know it was actually a space ship?  It was called "For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky."  The Enterprise had to put it back on it's right course before it smashed into another world.  Here's a shot of said asteroid from a shot I took of the TV screen back in the 1970s with a Kodak Instamatic 126 camera:



Star Trek 126 par HaarFager, on ipernity

[F2d5thCav]

Question for Gortex.

So Avi Loeb is making a big deal out of this object being very bright on the end that is facing toward us on its approach.

I'm thinking that if that side has a lot of natural material with a high albedo, it would reflect the light of our sun brightly.

I understand comets don't "usually" appear that way, but is my thought off base ?

[Ninurta]

Take it with a grain of salt. Every since his "conclusion" that Oumouamoua was potentially an alien space ship, Avi Loeb has been seeing aliens under every bed and in every closet. Anything he sees as beingout of the ordiary now seems to be a potential alien space ship.


.

[gortex]

The likelihood is that 3I/Atlas is a natural object but as with Oumuamua it displays interesting characteristics
, Oumuamua on top of its unusual shape exhibited a small non-gravitational acceleration as it left our system which is still a matter of debate that remains unexplained while 3I/Atlas is traveling at ludicrous speed compared to other objects we've seen with a statistically improbable trajectory , Avi Loeb accepts they are probably natural object but that doesn't mean we should rule out the possibility they may be Alien technology , it is the duty of science to observe this object with an open mind and collect as much data as is possible.

Even if they are natural objects that doesn't mean they weren't sent this way equipped with Alien technology to take a covert look at an interesting Planetary system , observation is the cornerstone of the scientific method so it's likely another more scientifically advanced civilisation would , as we have done in our limited way , send out probes to this relatively young Star system.

Avi Loeb speaks to Fox 10 Phoenix.


Our own Ion drive tech could theoretically propel an object to approximately 300,000 kilometers per second over time which is faster than Atlas is traveling although Atlas could have entered slow down mode as it entered our Solar System and could accelerate as it leaves but we need to observe it to find out.

Not saying its Aliens but it could be , which I think is also Avi Loeb's point.

[Kenzo1]

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.....