in Post-Perihelion Images of 3I/ATLAS
Avi Loeb Medium 11/05/25
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Post-perihelion image of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS,
taken on November 5, 2025
by the R. Naves Observatory,
shows a fuzzy ball of light.
(Remember when that picture was taken, Nov 5th)
The Sunward direction is towards the bottom left corner (with the arrow on the left pointing in the anti-Sun direction). No obvious cometary tail is seen. (Credit: R. Naves Observatory, Spain).
(Comets have tails, duh.)
"On November 5, 2025,
two new images of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS
were released.
They show a compact source of light without a clear cometary tail. The coma is not very different in morphology than its appearance in the Hubble Space Telescope on July 21, 2025.
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"This is surprising in view of NASA’s JPL report
here of a non-gravitational acceleration..."
(Funny thing about things that shouldn't exist
to begin with
they don't have to play by our rules...
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Two problems here...(3I/ATLAS)
I said after reading the first article about it:
The Release of Dust from the Surface of 3I/ATLAS
Does Not Imply That it is a Comet
Avi Loeb Medium 8/12/25
"The fundamental uncertainty about the new interstellar object 3I/ATLAS involves its size.
With the typical albedo of 5% for an asteroid,
its diameter needs to be 20 kilometers
in order to account for its brightness.
But as argued in my first paper about it,
the reservoir of rocky material
in interstellar space
can only deliver a 20-kilometer rock
once per 10,000 years,
even in the unlikely case
that all this interstellar material
is packed in 20-kilometer rocks."
(Simply put:
It should not exist.)
AND:
Preliminary Anomalies of 3I/ATLAS
Avi Loeb Medium Jul 12, 2025)
"detecting a 20-kilometer asteroid
in the inner solar system
over the survey period of 5 years
has a probability of 0.0001
based on the total reservoir
of interstellar asteroids."
(Thats a 1 in 10,000 chance BTW.
Now Back to Avis blog post:)
"Based on momentum conservation (as discussed here), I derived here that
the mass fraction lost during the perihelion passage
of 3I/ATLAS is larger than 13%.
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.
No such tail is visible
in the new images
from November 5, 2025.
(And who is surprised really?
"Funny thing about things that shouldn't exist
to begin with
they don't have to play by our rules.")
"In comparison, I include below an image of the solar system’s comet Lemmon, taken by one of the telescopes that observed 3I/ATLAS two days ago. Lemmon features a clear cometary tail pointing away from the Sun, as expected."
"Orbital Behavior and Non-Gravitational Forces
Currently, 3I/ATLAS lies behind the Sun as seen from Earth, making it temporarily invisible to ground-based telescopes.
Apparently the R. Naves Observatory,
and the virtual telescope project
(And others)
didn't get that memo
about it no being observable from earth.
Amateur astronomers with six inch telescopes
who have the proper view and know where to look
have found 3I/ATLAS at twilight
in the night sky as well.
Astronomer reveals first look at Comet 3I/ATLAS
as it reappears from behind the sun
Live science 11/03/25
"Qicheng Zhang, a postdoctoral fellow at the observatory, has subsequently found that the comet is also visible using small telescopes,
posting an example of this to his Cometary blog
on Sunday (Nov. 2).
According to Zhang, standard amateur telescopes should now start picking up the comet across much of the Northern Hemisphere."
When all of this started
we were told it wouldn't be visible again until
early December.
Thursday, October 2, 2025
I wouldn't be expecting much (3I/ATLAS)
are about to get our closest view yet
of the mysterious interstellar visitor
BBC Sky at night magazine. 10/01/25
"3I/ATLAS about to disappear behind the Sun from our perspective on Earth, and
won't be visible again
until early December 2025,
when it emerges into our sky again.""
Frustratingly, this period marks the point
at which it will be most active."
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Harvard professor issues warning about 3I/ATLAS
that may affect your vacation plans
& claims NASA is keeping secrets
"Gonna be interesting
here come
early December
when this thing
gets in view
of earth bound telescopes."
Yup...
Almost like
they didn't want people looking for it
in the night sky right now...
(Early November)
Hum...interesting)
"Its orbit – a hyperbolic path that ensures it will not return to our Solar System – takes it just inside the orbit of Mars. As it passes perihelion, astronomers track its motion using minor deviations from purely gravitational motion.
These non-gravitational accelerations arise
when jets of gas and dust escaping
from the surface act like tiny thrusters,
subtly altering the comet’s trajectory.
Such behavior is typical among active comets,
reinforcing the importance of continuous monitoring.
Through the Unistellar Network,
a global community of citizen astronomers
coordinated by the SETI Institute,
scientists collect near-continuous photometric data,
measuring changes in brightness
that signal new outbursts
OR FRAGMENTATION EVENTS.
Just before 3I/ATLAS became unobservable, Unistellar data showed an unexpected surge in brightness.
This brightening exceeded predictions,
hinting at either a sudden outburst of gas
or an increase in surface activity.
Space-based solar observatories
later confirmed that
the brightening
persisted through perihelion,
suggesting a significant change
in the comet’s physical state."
Maybe that's why
they didnt want people looking at it?
A lot of people
are flat out lying through their teeth
about this object
(3I/ATLAS)
and its becoming
more and more obvious
just why that is.
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