3I, NASA and Avi Loeb
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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is losing an insane amount of mass after making its closest pass of the sun last month — a phenomenon known as perihelion — prompting Harvard scientist Avi Loeb to speculate that the object might have fragmented into over a dozen pieces.
I/ATLAS will soon make its closes flyby to Earth. When this happens, Avi Loeb said that all questions could be answered.
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb is still not giving up hope that 3I/ATLAS could be an alien mothership and says it's too early to call it.
Meanwhile, the ESA’s (European Space Agency) Mars-based Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft has snapped a few images that the agency has published on social media. ESA remarked that they “pinpointed the comet's path with 10 times more accuracy, using data from ” ESA ExoMars TGO probe.
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb claims the comet may be a spacecraft after it did not break up following perihelion.