New ‘nearly interstellar’ comet — wrongly linked to 3I/ATLAS — will reach its closest point to Earth on Tuesday (Nov. 11)
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3I/ATLAS-Like Interstellar Objects Could Kick Start Planet Formation around High-Mass Stars
The discovery of 1I/Oumuamua, 2I/Borisov and 3I/ATLAS showed that significant numbers of interstellar objects populate interstellar space. Their…
Unusual New 3I/ATLAS Discovery Suggests the Interstellar Comet is “Anomalously Massive”
The mysterious comet 3I/ATLAS appears to be extremely large, making it orders of magnitude more massive than two…