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Scientists are tracking 3I/ATLAS using multiple spacecraft, revealing it as possibly the largest interstellar comet with a CO2-rich coma and unusual hyperbolic trajectory near perihelion.
- On Oct. 29–30, 2025, 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar comet discovered in July 2025, reached perihelion at about 1.35 AU from the Sun.
- Scientists observed rapid brightening and a blue tint, with SPHEREx finding the coma about four percent water by mass and unusual nickel and iron abundance.
- Farnoccia's dataset of 647 observations and spacecraft detections indicates a hyperbolic orbit with e = 6.1373, confirming an unbound trajectory, supported by high-confidence orbit fits.
- Researchers note the object's scientific value for comparative chemistry, with most astronomers and NASA experts affirming it as a natural interstellar comet posing no threat, while Avi Loeb, Harvard astrophysicist, faces pushback for his technological hypothesis.
- On Dec. 19, 2025 the comet is expected to be about 267 million kilometers from Earth, with models projecting half mass loss in six months and a large gas plume late in 2025.
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Comet 3I/ATLAS maintains its tendency to change in an untimely way, even now that it is making its journey near the Earth, showing a great acceleration and change of color.Avi Loeb, Harvard's astrophysicist who has followed the interstellar object, made observations on 29 October, pointing to the aforementioned changes in comet 3I/ATLAS.Comet 3I/ATLAS presented several changes by making its maximum approach to the SunAccording to Avi Loeb, comet…
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