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THE WEIGH-IN: We Published The Verdict on Tuesday. A Paper From the Day Before Had Already Killed the Comet Model.
Three physicists put 3I on a scale. The surface area needed to produce the water is bigger than the object itself.

#comet #3I/ATLAS #water
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THE WEIGH-IN: We Published The Verdict on Tuesday. A Paper From the Day Before Had Already Killed the Comet Model.

Three physicists put 3I on a scale. The surface area needed to produce the water is bigger than the object itself.

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Mar 19 at 4:04pmWeb
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Hubble has seen a 'strange' comet cracking open over Earth – completely by accident

#comet #C/2025 K1

The Hubble Space Telescope observed comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) breaking up, but caught its disintegration completely by accident.

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An interstellar comet packed with alcohol? What ALMA found in 3I/ATLAS

Comet 3I/ATLAS continues to make astonishing headlines, thanks to new findings from astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). This new research reveals that 3I/ATLAS is packed with an unusually large amount of the organic molecule methanol—more than almost all known comets in our own solar system.

Hmmm...

#comet #3IAtlas

https://phys.org/news/2026-03-interstellar-comet-alcohol-alma-3iatlas.html

An interstellar comet packed with alcohol? What ALMA found in 3I/ATLAS

Comet 3I/ATLAS continues to make astonishing headlines, thanks to new findings from astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). This new research reveals that 3I/ATLAS is packed with an unusually large amount of the organic molecule methanol—more than almost all known comets in our own solar system.

Phys.org