{"id":33615,"date":"2025-10-29T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33615"},"modified":"2025-10-28T17:13:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:13:27","slug":"is-comet-3i-atlas-really-a-spaceship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33615","title":{"rendered":"Is Comet 3I\/ATLAS really a spaceship?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Is Comet 3I\/ATLAS really a spaceship?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Space Weather News for Oct 28, 2025<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/Spaceweather.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0c5fce34d5ca05f64a13d085d&amp;id=8e6e39fbef&amp;e=de6f94dc30\">https:\/\/spaceweather.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/Spaceweather.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0c5fce34d5ca05f64a13d085d&amp;id=9f8c25f8a2&amp;e=de6f94dc30\">https:\/\/www.spaceweatheralerts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>INTERSTELLAR COMET 3I\/ATLAS IS NOT HIDING FROM EARTH:<\/strong> The internet is buzzing with claims that interstellar Comet 3I\/ATLAS is &#8220;hiding behind the sun.&#8221; It\u2019s not. Coronagraphs on GOES-19, SOHO, and NASA\u2019s new PUNCH mission are watching it every day&#8211;and it\u2019s behaving like a comet, not a spaceship.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a03I\/ATLAS AT PERIHELION: <\/span><\/strong>Is Comet 3I\/ATLAS really a spaceship? We\u2019re about to find out. On Oct. 29th, the interstellar object will make its closest approach to the sun. Perihelion is the perfect time to perform a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/general\/combined-heat-shield-and-solar-thermal-propulsion-system-for-an-oberth-manuever\/\">Solar Oberth maneuver<\/a> or to deploy stealthy probes. If we see any unexpected non-gravitational acceleration, artificial lights, or excess heat (engine activity), it could point to alien tech. Otherwise, 3I\/ATLAS is what it appears to be&#8211;a comet. Contrary to widespread reports, we <em>can<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceweatherarchive.com\/2025\/10\/28\/comet-3i-atlas-is-not-hiding-from-earth\/\">see 3I\/ATLAS<\/a> from Earth, so this will be a legitimate &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/avi-loeb.medium.com\/the-acid-test-of-3i-atlas-at-perihelion-ce131eca8485\">acid test<\/a>&#8221; of the spaceship hypothesis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Comet 3I\/ATLAS really a spaceship? Space Weather News for Oct 28, 2025 https:\/\/spaceweather.com https:\/\/www.spaceweatheralerts.com INTERSTELLAR COMET 3I\/ATLAS IS NOT HIDING FROM EARTH: The internet is buzzing with claims that interstellar Comet 3I\/ATLAS is &#8220;hiding behind the sun.&#8221; It\u2019s not. Coronagraphs on GOES-19, SOHO, and NASA\u2019s new PUNCH mission are watching it every day&#8211;and it\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33615\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is Comet 3I\/ATLAS really a spaceship?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33615"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33618,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33615\/revisions\/33618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}