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Stefan Burns, AM 9/12/25
"Strange Structures Surrounding 3I/ATLAS
Revealed as it Begins Glowing Green"
"New polarization data on 3I/ATLAS has come out revealing intriguing new details about the structure of the huge cloud of dust, gas, and plasma surrounding this third ever observed interstellar object. Should we still classify 3I/ATLAS as a comet in light of this new data and all the other oddities (early anti-sun tail, huge extremely CO2 enriched coma, tremendous velocity, high nickel to iron ratio, rare orbital trajectory) observed with it thus far? Is 3I/ATLAS going to just pass through the Solar System, or perhaps is it here to stay? And now it's glowing GREEN?! Geophysicist Stefan Burns reports..."
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Tech Map, 9/12/25
"3I/ATLAS is Behaving Strangely as Closes in on Mars:
Extreme Negative Polarization...Can’t Explain!"
"Once again, the updates about 3I/Atlas refuse to stop surprising us. Drifting silently through the vast, terrifying emptiness of space, this mysterious visitor has been keeping scientists on edge for more than two months. At first, it seemed destined to leave behind nothing but unanswered questions, just like ʻOumuamua. But now, clearer signs are beginning to reveal the true path of its journey.Is this simply another interstellar comet? Or could it be something far more unusual… something hiding in plain sight? Let’s find out, right now.
In early August, a report titled “Extreme Negative Polarisation of New Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS” by Z. Gray et al. (2025) revealed the latest evidence about how 3I Atlas polarizes light compared to other objects - including Solar System comets and even the previous interstellar visitor, 2I Borisov. The results were truly shocking: 3I Atlas exhibited an extremely deep and narrow negative polarization, reaching about –2.77% at a phase angle of 6.41°. On top of that, its polarization inversion angle - the point where the polarization changes sign - was unusually low, only 17.05°.
So, what does this mean? It shows that the way light interacts with the dust and gas around 3I Atlas is completely different from anything seen in Solar System comets, including 2I Borisov. It doesn’t fit into either the “high-P” or “low-P” groups of comets. Instead, Atlas seems to exist outside all known classifications.
This unique combination of a low inversion angle and a maximum negative polarization makes 3I Atlas the first known object in history to display such optical behavior. Many scientists now believe it could represent an entirely new population of interstellar bodies - something humanity has never encountered before.
Normally, when we observe a comet, sunlight reflects off the dust and ice in its coma and tail, becoming polarized - in other words, the light waves vibrate more strongly in one direction. Depending on the viewing angle relative to the Sun, each comet shows a polarization “signature,” like a fingerprint. But with 3I/Atlas, the reflected light breaks all the rules. This suggests its dust and ice may be made of materials completely unfamiliar to science."
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RevVolt, 9/12/25
"NASA Detects Mysterious New Object
Following 3I/ATLAS – What's Going On?"
"NASA has just detected something highly unusual - a mysterious new object is now trailing behind the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS. Astronomers are stunned, and theories are spreading fast. Is it a fragment, a hidden moon, or something far more advanced? This shocking discovery comes as 3I/ATLAS continues its strange journey through our solar system, echoing the unexplained mysteries of ‘Oumuamua. With new data pouring in, experts are racing to figure out what this object really is - and why it seems to be shadowing 3I/ATLAS."
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This is starting to sound a lot like the Heaven's Gate obsession with the Hale-Bopp Comet. I grew up near Houston, and I was living there at the time all that went down. The best radio station was 101 KLOL, with shock jocks Stevens & Pruitt. Their news guy was Chuck Shramek, who was also an amateur astronomer, and he's the guy who "discovered" the object following Hale_Bopp that got the Heaven's Gate people so excited.
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