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Everything We Know About The Mysterious ‘Alien Spaceship’ Experts Say Could Reach Earth Today
An expert has cautioned that an unidentified ‘alien spacecraft’ is expected to arrive on Earth today, 29 October.
Comet 3I/ATLAS was initially detected by NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in early July as an interstellar entity. The origin remains ambiguous, as an individual from Harvard University has been amplifying conspiracy theorists.
The comet has exhibited strange behavior, and the scientist estimates a 30 to 40 percent probability that it is not a ‘naturally created’ item.
Avi Loeb has been cautioning about 3I/ATLAS for some time, but he is not explicitly asserting that an alien invasion is imminent; rather, he suggests that it cannot be entirely dismissed.
The scientist’s warning about 3I/ATLAS
Loeb has stated that he believes the object may be a ‘possibly hostile’ extraterrestrial vessel that has been intentionally accelerating towards Earth.
In an interview with NewsNation, he urged world leaders to regard UFOs with greater seriousness and issued a caution regarding the necessity for enhanced preparedness in the event of human contact with extraterrestrial beings.
“I believe that we need an international organisation that will make policy decisions about such an object,” he said.
“We are worried about existential threats from artificial intelligence, from global climate change, from an asteroid impact, but we never discuss alien technology.”
He asserted that the object lacks the typical attributes associated with a comet, being not only larger than usual but also possessing a light source in front rather than the conventional luminous tail trailing behind.
Contact with Earth
Adhering to the possibility that it may be an extraterrestrial mothership, Loeb earlier informed scientific communicator and The Big Bang Theory actor Mayim Bialik that he considers today to be momentous.
“If you want to take a vacation, take it before [October 29], because who knows what will happen?” he told her in a video interview.
However, the speaker is not suggesting that we should be alarmed by the prospect of an alien takeover; rather, it is merely a theory that today could signify a moment of contact with the object.
He employed the Oberth effect as his rationale — the theory that a spacecraft utilizes fuel more efficiently at elevated velocities, as a manifestation of energy conservation.
“As a result of this so-called Oberth effect, it is most energy-efficient for a spacecraft engine to burn its fuel when its orbital velocity is greatest,” he explained.
“If 3I/ATLAS is a massive mothership, it will likely continue along its original gravitational path and ultimately exit the Solar System. In that case, the Oberth manoeuvre might apply to the mini-probes it releases at perihelion towards Solar system planets.”
Nonetheless, NASA states it will ‘stay distant’ from Earth.
Findings on the object
3I/ATLAS is the third interstellar object to traverse our solar system in documented history.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and NIRSpec detected the emission of carbon dioxide, water, water ice, and carbonyl sulfide, when the object outgasses upon approaching the sun.
The comet is claimed to have emitted the largest ratio of carbon dioxide to water ever recorded, suggesting that its core may be abundant in carbon dioxide. This implies that its ices were subjected to elevated radiation levels compared to objects within our solar system, as specialists provide theories on the comet’s substantial CO2 content.
Low water levels may indicate that 31/ATLAS could impede heat transfer.
It is believed to be approximately three billion years older than our solar system and is hypothesized to originate from the Milky Way’s ‘thick disk’ of stars.
One of the most perplexing phenomena is the presence of a ‘anti-tail’ of jet particles that orient towards the sun, contrary to the traditional expectation of a comet’s tail, which usually extends away from it. It appears to have been reported as having changed.
“We cannot infer the true nature of 3I/ATLAS from the skin layer it has shed so far,” Loeb said. “If the object were an alien spacecraft slowing down, and the anti-tail represented braking thrust, this shift from anti-tail to tail would be entirely expected.”
Declaration of 3I/ATLAS as a ‘threat’
The item, classified as a comet by experts, has undeniably incited controversy within the community due to its atypical behavior.
The International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) included it in its catalog of dangers.
This signifies the inaugural instance in which the UN-backed organization has incorporated an interstellar object into its catalog, characterizing it as presenting ‘unique problems’ in forecasting its trajectory.
What has NASA said?
The organization states that astronomers have classified 31/ATLAS as interstellar because to the hyperbolic nature of its orbital trajectory, which does not conform to a closed orbit around the sun.
“Comet 3I/ATLAS poses no threat to Earth and will remain far away. The closest it will approach our planet is about 1.8 astronomical units (about 170 million miles, or 270 million kilometres),” NASA says.
“3I/ATLAS will reach its closest point to the Sun around Oct. 30, 2025, at a distance of about 1.4 au (130 million miles, or 210 million kilometres) — just inside the orbit of Mars.”
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