US EditionMysterious Object Screaming Toward Mars Is Huge and Far More Massive Than Scientists Thought, According to New Paper
3I/ATLAS, an interstellar visitor, is estimated to be thousands of times more massive than previous objects and contains unexpectedly high levels of carbon dioxide, researchers say.
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Mysterious Object Screaming Toward Mars Is Huge and Far More Massive Than Scientists Thought, According to New Paper
For over two months, astronomers have been closely following an interstellar object — dubbed 3I/ATLAS — as it screams through the solar system at a breakneck speed. The unusual visitor was only the third object from beyond the solar system ever detected, following ‘Oumuamua, which was discovered in 2017, and 2I/Borisov in 2019. Researchers have been fascinated by the object, generally believed to be a comet, finding that it’s made up of far more…
In a new scientific article written by prolific physicist Avi Loeb along with Richard Cloete and Peter Veres, it is reported that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAs, which has inspired thousands of headlines and tens of thousands of concerns, is much more massive and enormous than scientists believed. No, it is not yet time [...]
Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas is 1000 to 100,000 Bigger Than Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov
The total mass loss rate and outflow speed from its 3I/Atlas surface was used to infer its mass. The mass of 3I/ATLAS must be bigger than 33 billion tons. The diameter of its solid-density nucleus must be larger than 5 kilometers. This suggests that 3I/ATLAS is more massive than the other two interstellar objects, 1I/`Oumuamua ...
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