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3i/Atlas - Is it an asteroid, is it a comet, or other?

  • 19-08-2025 06:39AM
    #1
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,788 ✭✭✭


    So, as of today 19th August 2025 the jury's still out as to what 3i/Atlas (C/2025 N1) actually is, and what it's made of. Conflicting ideas and theories based on Hubble pictures from 21st July do not provide enough detail (yet) due to distance and speed of the interstellar object.

    Mixed messages re the objects size, brightness, colour (red)? and it's coma.

    Waiting for better data and more Hubble snaps before 3i/Atlas reaches perihelion towards the end of October 2025.

    More than likely an interstellar comet, but they just need more data, and some new pictures of the object before it's composition and size can be clarified.

    Let's enjoy the discussion here, Pre (and Post perihelion) when it reappears from behind the sun for us to scrutinise, before shooting off past Jupiter and back out into the cosmos 🌠



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  • #2
    machiavellianme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 13,867 ✭✭✭✭machiavellianme


    It's clearly aliens. Heck even it's original name (A11pl3Z) looks like someone was trying to spell Alienz but hit a few wrong keys in the middle.

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