New Interstellar Object like Oumuamua Spotted Entering the Solar System at Extremely High Speed (3I/ATLAS)

 

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3I/ATLAS or A11pI3Z, will reach its closest point to the Sun on October 27, 2025, at about 1.4 AU. Earth will be on the far side of its orbit at that time, but the object will make its closest approach to Earth on December 17, at a distance of 2.4 AU.

Orbital Path: 

https://theskylive.com/3dsolarsystem?obj=c2025n1

https://theskylive.com/articles/2025/07/3i-atlas-a-month-by-month-observing-guide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3I/ATLAS

http://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/3i-atlas/

3I/ATLAS was discovered on 1 July 2025, by the NASA-funded ATLAS survey telescope at Río Hurtado, Chile.

Avi Loeb is the Baird Professor of Science and Institute director at Harvard University and the bestselling author of “Extraterrestrial” and "Interstellar".

https://avi-loeb.medium.com/

https://avi-loeb.medium.com/a-recap-of-the-anomalies-of-3i-atlas-on-the-day-of-its-closest-approach-to-mars-6c2949fb16ab

(Edit: I just wanted to point out, I originally wrote the stuff below with ChatGPT on 7/10/25. Avi posted this post today, October 3, 2025. "When you look at the Sun in the coming weeks, keep in mind that 3I/ATLAS is passing behind it. If 3I/ATLAS will maneuver towards Earth when it reappears on the other side of the Sun, the financial markets may crash." I'm not saying this as a "Doom's Day" scenario, or when Avi has suggested it could be a nefarious spaceship. I was merely saying it is interesting that he is suggesting the same idea as I did; a possible course correction once the object is visible again after it passes behind the sun.)

 

"This would mean that the diameter of 3I/ATLAS is about 15 kilometers." 15 kilometers is 9.32 miles in diameter. 

Avi Loeb: Why 3I/ATLAS Is So Strange | The Sol Forum

@14:14 Ryokah talking about 3I/Atlas

(Same video as below. This is the clipped version.)

@38:51 - Message from 3I/Atlas

CHATGPT: 

Key dates & visibility windows

Period	What’s happening	Visibility from Earth
Now through September 2025	The comet is inbound, getting brighter, moving closer to the Sun. NASA Science+3Sci.News: Breaking Science News+3TheSkyLive+3	Still visible in telescopes with good aperture. After sunset in the western sky. Best from near-equatorial latitudes; as it gets closer to the Sun, it will be lower in the sky and more difficult. TheSkyLive+1
October 2025	Perihelion (closest to the Sun) occurs October 29, 2025 at about 1.356 AU from the Sun. Wikipedia+2Sci.News: Breaking Science News+2	Before perihelion, the comet’s solar elongation (angle from the Sun in the sky) will shrink, meaning it will be harder to see against twilight/sun glare. For much of October, it will be near Sun in the sky (low elongation) and likely not observable. TheSkyLive+1
Early November 2025	After passing behind/close to the Sun from Earth's point of view, the comet will reappear in the morning sky (before sunrise). TheSkyLive+2Wikipedia+2	This is probably the best time for telescopic observers: higher elongation, brighter (though still faint), more hours before dawn when the sky is dark enough. TheSkyLive+1
Mid- to late December 2025	The comet will be moving away from both the Sun and Earth; it will get fainter. Closest approach to Earth will happen around December 19, 2025, at a distance of ~1.80 AU (≈ 269 million kilometers). TheSkyLive+3TheSkyLive+3Wikipedia+3	Even at closest approach, it won’t be very bright, so good telescopes will be needed. After December visibility declines. TheSkyLive+1

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How far away / distances

• Right now (mid-September 2025), the comet is about 2.54 AU from Earth (≈ 380 million km). TheSkyLive+1

• At its closest approach to Earth (on December 19, 2025), it will be about 1.7975 AU away (≈ 269 million km). Wikipedia+1

• Perihelion (closest to Sun) is at ~1.356 AU from the Sun (~203 million km). Wikipedia+1

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What that means for telescope viewing

• The comet is never going to be super close to Earth, so it will never be a naked-eye or binocular object under good urban skies (unless something unexpected brightens it). Expect it to look like a fuzzy smudge even through telescopes. TheSkyLive+1

• A moderate‐to‐large amateur telescope (say 8-inch / 200 mm or larger) will be useful to detect it when it's at magnitudes ~12-14. Wikipedia+1

• The best observing windows for Earth‐based telescopes are now until September (after sunset), and then early November (before sunrise) after it comes back from being behind the Sun. TheSkyLive+1

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I've been thinking about it. Think of how crazy it would be, assuming it is a spaceship, for it to just... Stop...like, just stop moving, sometime around early November. Think of how wild that would be. 

Also, check out these diagrams: 

https://theskylive.com/3dsolarsystem?objs=c2025n1&date=2025-11-04&h=06&m=35&

https://theskylive.com/3dsolarsystem?objs=c2025n1&date=2025-12-01&h=06&m=35&

https://theskylive.com/3dsolarsystem?objs=c2025n1&date=2026-03-01&h=06&m=35&

So, if it just stopped, Earth's orbit would connect very closely to it around March 2026. Bashar (channeled through Darryl Anka) has talked about ET contact within the window of "June 1st 2026, to January 2027, to June 2027". 

That is pretty close to the dates for the Atlas approach. 

Anyway, something to think about. Think of how crazy the scientific community would freak out. And the video from Ryokah, next step would be consciously connect with the ship. 

Also, for major Contact Event, I think spaceships over the oceans, like Bashar has talked about, it still on the table. I just think that the 3I/Atlas idea would help us digest the ET presence idea a little better, because we would have months before we approached it. 

Also, from the article, September 2025, "NASA announces strongest evidence yet for ancient life on Mars. A newly peer-reviewed paper adds scientific weight to the claim that a leopard-spotted rock found in Jezero Crater may hold the fossilized signatures of ancient martian microbes — though the claim is still far from proven."
https://www.astronomy.com/science/nasa-announces-strongest-evidence-yet-for-ancient-life-on-mars/

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-says-mars-rover-discovered-potential-biosignature-last-year/

Also, UAP Hearing on September 9th, 2025. It is worth the watch, but I guess one of the most surprising thing from the hearing is the video showing that I believe the US military fired a Hellfire missile a UFO, and the UFO took no visible damage, and kept flying. 

Probably a very bad idea to be shooting at UFO's / UAP's, but anyway: 

https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1ncm8pc/new_video_shared_by_burlison_on_todays_uap_hearing/