{"id":33733,"date":"2025-12-18T13:33:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33733"},"modified":"2025-12-18T13:33:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:33:22","slug":"alien-comet-not-an-alien-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33733","title":{"rendered":"Alien comet, not an alien craft"},"content":{"rendered":"

31\/Atlas is an alien comet, not an alien craft, even though it is not accelerating due only to gravity. –CPL<\/p>\n

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Space Weather News for Dec. 16, 2025<\/strong>
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THE NON-GRAVITATIONAL ACCELERATION OF 3I\/ATLAS:\u00a0<\/strong> New data from NASA\u2019s Psyche spacecraft and ESA’s Mars Trace Gas Orbiter confirm that interstellar comet 3I\/ATLAS is not moving under the force of gravity alone. It has a “non-gravitational acceleration.” The effect can be explained entirely by cometary outgassing, and allows astronomers to weigh the comet from afar. Full story @\u00a0Spaceweather.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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31\/Atlas is an alien comet, not an alien craft, even though it is not accelerating due only to gravity. –CPL Space Weather News for Dec. 16, 2025 https:\/\/spaceweather.com THE NON-GRAVITATIONAL ACCELERATION OF 3I\/ATLAS:\u00a0 New data from NASA\u2019s Psyche spacecraft and ESA’s Mars Trace Gas Orbiter confirm that interstellar comet 3I\/ATLAS is not moving under the … Continue reading Alien comet, not an alien craft<\/span> →<\/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-33733","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\/33733","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=33733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33736,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33733\/revisions\/33736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}