This surprised me given that it's published at the given link provided.

Currently this thing is travelling at 13.142 km/s which is equal to 47.311.2 kilometres per hour, which itself is something between 10 to 20 times faster than the speed of an 'average' bullet.

Interesting is that given its present course and speed it will be closest to Earth around Christmas day of this year.

Spooky.

Make of it what you will.

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IS COMET 3I/ATLAS ALIEN TECHNOLOGY? Carl Sagan famously said, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.” But he never said we couldn't talk about them. In that spirit, we review a new draft paper by Avi Loeb and colleagues, which—without extraordinary proof—asks whether interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS might be a spaceship.

Avi Loeb is a Harvard astronomy professor who became a household name in 2017 after the discovery of ‘Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object to pass through our solar system. While most scientists offered natural explanations, Loeb made headlines by suggesting it could be from an artificial probe from an alien civilization.

This artist’s concept shows how ‘Oumuamua is usually depicted: as a cigar shaped asteroid.

This idea might have been dismissed outright if it came from someone less credentialed. But Loeb’s Harvard affiliation lent it gravitas—and he had a point. ‘Oumuamua’s strange cigar-like shape and unexplained acceleration fit the Hollywood stereotype of a spacecraft. It sped up slightly as it left the solar system, possibly due to.out gassing like a comet Yet no gas or dust was ever seen.

Loeb's reception has been frosty. Many mainstream researchers refuse to even mention his ideas in published papers. But Loeb hasn't backed down. He pioneered Project Galileo in 2021 to search the skies for technological artifacts. He has even searched the ocean floor. In mid-2023, Loeb announced the recovery of metallic spherules in the Pacific, arguing that they may be fragments from an artificial interstellar meteor. (Others strongly disagree.)

Now Loeb is looking at newly discovered interstellar object 3I/ATLAS as a potential piece of alien technology. In a paper co-authored by Adam Hibberd and Adam Crowl, he lays out nine ideas consistent with it being an intentional alien visitor. We review some of them here:

https://spaceweather.com/

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