{"id":192766,"date":"2025-09-30T17:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/192766\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T17:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:27:09","slug":"mysterious-object-3i-atlas-entering-solar-system-much-larger-than-previously-thought-could-be-alien-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/192766\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious object 3I\/ATLAS entering solar system much larger than previously thought, could be \u2018alien technology\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

A massive comet traveling through the solar system <\/a>is much larger than previously thought and could be a remnant of alien technology, a scientist claims in a new report. <\/p>\n

3I\/ATLAS was first identified in July by NASA\u2019s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System. The U.S. space agency confirmed the object is an interstellar object \u2013 only the third such object to have ever been spotted \u2013 following Comet 2I\/Borisov that passed through in 2019 and \u2018Oumuamua, a cigar-shaped object that appeared in 2017.<\/p>\n

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But 3I\/Atlas is different and has some scientists questioning its origins. In a new study,<\/a> Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb and his team said mass of ATLAS \u201cmust be bigger than 33 billion tons\u201d with a nucleus larger than 3.1 miles. The object is also shedding large amounts of carbon dioxide and dust as it zooms towards the sun.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis suggests that 3I\/ATLAS is more massive than the other two interstellar objects, 1I\/`Oumuamua and 2I\/Borisov by 3\u20135 orders of magnitude, constituting a major anomaly,\u201d Loeb wrote in a blog post.<\/a><\/p>\n

The massive object is traveling towards the sun extremely fast, around 152,000 mph and is on an flat and straight trajectory that\u2019s unlike anything else in the solar system.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA future detection of a major maneuver of 3I\/ATLAS would suggest propulsion by a technologically manufactured engine,\u201d Loeb wrote, adding in an earlier paper that the \u201chypothesis in question is that (31\/ATLAS) is a technological artifact, and furthermore has active intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

The comet poses no danger to Earth – it will remain at a distance of about 150 million miles away – as it moves towards the sun but will pass within 1.67 million miles of Mars\u2019 orbit while coming close to both Jupiter and Venus, NASA reported.<\/a><\/p>\n

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