December 3, 2025 • 9 mins
Cristina Gomez discusses new Cornell University research revealing 3I/ATLAS may contain metal and match ancient Antarctic meteorites, plus the swarm theory suggesting a trillion objects could be traveling together through our solar system as the interstellar object approaches Earth on December 19, 2025.
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00:00 - 3I/ATLAS New Research
00:37 - What They Found Inside 3I/ATLAS
01:56 - The 3I/ATLAS Core is Not Normal
03:23 - Latest December 3I/ATLAS Findings
05:23 - The 3I/ATLAS Swarm Theory
07:05 - 3I/ATLAS Heading Toward Jupiter
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00:00 - 3I/ATLAS New Research
00:37 - What They Found Inside 3I/ATLAS
01:56 - The 3I/ATLAS Core is Not Normal
03:23 - Latest December 3I/ATLAS Findings
05:23 - The 3I/ATLAS Swarm Theory
07:05 - 3I/ATLAS Heading Toward Jupiter
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A new scientific paper was just submitted to the arXiv
through the Cornell University on November twenty fourth by researchers
Joseph Trigo Rodriguez, Maria Grissovich, and Jordgan Bloom, and their
research suggests that three eye atlasts may possess high tinsil
strength and a substantial metal fraction. They compared the spectral
(00:21):
data from three I atlysts to pristine carbonaceous chondrites from
NASA's Antarctic Meteorite Collection, and for those unfamiliar, carbonaceous chondrites
are some of the oldest and most primitive materials in
our solar system. They contain carbon compounds and sometimes water.
The spectral similarities indicate that three I atlas may be
(00:43):
a primitive carbonaceous object, likely enriched in native material. But
here is the part that really stood out to me.
The researchers proposed that the combination of elevated metal abundance
and abundant water ice can account for the unusual comomorphology
chemical products that we've seen with fine grained metal particles
(01:04):
coming into contact with water. These are energetic chemical reactions
and produce specific compounds. The research says they could explain
why three I at Lists is releasing chemicals that are
not common in other comets, but comets formed in the
Solar System do not inherit that much metal. While researchers
(01:26):
study the metal content, amateur astronomers are discovering something strange
about the core of three eye at Lists that supports
these findings. They also suggest the object maybe experiencing volcanic
activity driven by ice instead of molten rock. Ray from
Rais Astrophotography has been attempting to resolve the core using
(01:46):
planetary processing techniques, and these are the same methods used
to sharpen images of Saturn and Mars. And what he
found was unexpected comforting.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
The the pictures that the heck they can. And I
was calculating how big the coma of this comet three
Atlas is and it came to like around seventeen thousand
kilometers diameter. Earth is around twelve five hundred kilometers, So
(02:16):
it's a much bigger coma than the Earth itself.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
So what it confirmed is the core is very bright.
The core is not just a dark core. So whatever
is spinning in Comet three Atlas, it may be looking dark,
it may be looking bright, but definitely. The surface is
like super hot and it is like something bright.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Okay, that's my conclusion, at least by looking at it.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
This is notable because typical commentary nuclei are dark. Most
comet cores have reflectivity values of around four percent. They
absorb light rather than reflect it. But data shows three
I at lists behaving differently, and if the Cornell research
about metal content is accurate, that could explain the unusual
(03:09):
brightness metal reflects lights. The rotation speed also caught his
attention and other researchers attention as well. Stay with me,
because what comes next gets even more interesting. Let's look
at the most recent data. On December second, Spacetracker published
new observations captured by Chuck's astrophotography and processed by amar A.
(03:32):
Here is what they found. The coma appears thicker, more isotropic,
and slightly expanded compared to late November. Even at low exposure.
Three I atlas displays subtle forward jets, and these faint
finger like streams indicate sublimation pockets on its rotating nucleus.
The space Tracker team noted that the COMMA profile differs
(03:55):
from normal long period comets. It behaves more like what
they call a hyper volatile body. And they also observed
what they described as microjets forming faint directional signatures and
evidence of repeated flare shaping due to the rotation. Now,
remember the NASA briefing on three Eye at lists, so
(04:16):
many questions and points were left unanswered and unaddressed. One
major point involves the Punch mission. These are four satellites
launched in March of this year by SpaceX for the
Southwest Research Team, and they orbit around six hundred kilometers
above Earth and are designed to create three D models
of solar winds. During the Mars conjunction with three I
(04:39):
at lists, the Punch satellites captured images that showed the
Comment and Mars together in frame. As reported by NASA Science,
These observations were collected between September twentieth and October third.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Imagine you start flying towards Marts right, Mars is going
to get bigger. Three atlass is going to be bigger
as well. And imagine new ste and on the Mars
and taking a look at the commat three Eye it's
going to be a jane out on this object. I
think that is something that we should have learned.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
According to NASA, this was the first time these solar
focused missions have deliberately observed an interstellar object, yet this
context was largely absent from the press conference discussion. Now
there's another theory that could explain the unusual anti tail
that we've been seeing. Astrophysicist Abby Lobe published an analysis
(05:31):
on medium that offers a mathematical explanation. JPL Horizon, which
is NASA's system for tracking objects in albur solar system,
has been reporting a non gravitational acceleration acting on three Ialys. Essentially,
something is pushing this object slightly away from the Sun.
What if three Ialys is not alone. What if it's
surrounded by a swarm of smaller objects that do not
(05:54):
share this non gravitational push. Think of it like this.
Imagine two cars driving to on a highway together at
the same speed. Now imagine a gentle wind starts pushing
only one of the cars slightly forward. Over time, that
car pulls ahead while the other one falls behind. That
is what the theory suggests might be happening. The main
(06:16):
object is getting a tiny push away from the Sun,
but the smaller objects traveling with it are not getting
the same push, so over time, those small objects drift
a little closer to the Sun while the main body
moves slightly away from it. The calculations show that smaller
objects traveling with three eyed atlas would drift about fifty
(06:37):
four thousand kilometers closer to the Sun than the main
body because they do not receive the same outward push,
and that matches the sun where glow astronomers are seeing
right now when you run the numbers, a trillion tiny objects,
even if they only weigh a fraction of the main body,
would have way more surface area to reflect light. But
(06:59):
although small pieces together would bounce back almost all of
the sunlight we're seeing glowing from three eye atlas, so
the brightness we're observing might not be coming from the object,
but it could be coming from countless smaller ones. Per
insights from analysis of the Hubble Space telescope images taken
on July twenty first, the ratio is consistent with the
(07:20):
fraction of light observed in the coma. If these objects
are not evaporating under solar heat, which the data suggests
they're not, this would maintain this anti tail geometry throughout
the entire journey, always pointing towards the Sun relative to
three Eye Atlas, and now three Eye Atlas is heading
towards Jupiter. But before the Jupiter encounter, three Eye Atlas
(07:43):
will reach its closest approach to Earth on December nineteenth.
It will be far enough that it's not a threat,
but close enough that ground based telescopes will get to
see it. Christina Gomez and that is it for today.
I will see you again tomorrow at ten AMPST for
another UFO news update. Be safe and remember keep your
eyes on the skies.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
In us to talk to Unock discuss me still lessen
soon and tarkonor scn pnigmavite blighted dispersal wo either saw
me Steady.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
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Speaker 5 (09:09):
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Speaker 4 (09:23):
Something
A new scientific paper was just submitted to the arXiv
through the Cornell University on November twenty fourth by researchers
Joseph Trigo Rodriguez, Maria Grissovich, and Jordgan Bloom, and their
research suggests that three eye atlasts may possess high tinsil
strength and a substantial metal fraction. They compared the spectral
(00:21):
data from three I atlysts to pristine carbonaceous chondrites from
NASA's Antarctic Meteorite Collection, and for those unfamiliar, carbonaceous chondrites
are some of the oldest and most primitive materials in
our solar system. They contain carbon compounds and sometimes water.
The spectral similarities indicate that three I atlas may be
(00:43):
a primitive carbonaceous object, likely enriched in native material. But
here is the part that really stood out to me.
The researchers proposed that the combination of elevated metal abundance
and abundant water ice can account for the unusual comomorphology
chemical products that we've seen with fine grained metal particles
(01:04):
coming into contact with water. These are energetic chemical reactions
and produce specific compounds. The research says they could explain
why three I at Lists is releasing chemicals that are
not common in other comets, but comets formed in the
Solar System do not inherit that much metal. While researchers
(01:26):
study the metal content, amateur astronomers are discovering something strange
about the core of three eye at Lists that supports
these findings. They also suggest the object maybe experiencing volcanic
activity driven by ice instead of molten rock. Ray from
Rais Astrophotography has been attempting to resolve the core using
(01:46):
planetary processing techniques, and these are the same methods used
to sharpen images of Saturn and Mars. And what he
found was unexpected comforting.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
The the pictures that the heck they can. And I
was calculating how big the coma of this comet three
Atlas is and it came to like around seventeen thousand
kilometers diameter. Earth is around twelve five hundred kilometers, So
(02:16):
it's a much bigger coma than the Earth itself.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
So what it confirmed is the core is very bright.
The core is not just a dark core. So whatever
is spinning in Comet three Atlas, it may be looking dark,
it may be looking bright, but definitely. The surface is
like super hot and it is like something bright.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Okay, that's my conclusion, at least by looking at it.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
This is notable because typical commentary nuclei are dark. Most
comet cores have reflectivity values of around four percent. They
absorb light rather than reflect it. But data shows three
I at lists behaving differently, and if the Cornell research
about metal content is accurate, that could explain the unusual
(03:09):
brightness metal reflects lights. The rotation speed also caught his
attention and other researchers attention as well. Stay with me,
because what comes next gets even more interesting. Let's look
at the most recent data. On December second, Spacetracker published
new observations captured by Chuck's astrophotography and processed by amar A.
(03:32):
Here is what they found. The coma appears thicker, more isotropic,
and slightly expanded compared to late November. Even at low exposure.
Three I atlas displays subtle forward jets, and these faint
finger like streams indicate sublimation pockets on its rotating nucleus.
The space Tracker team noted that the COMMA profile differs
(03:55):
from normal long period comets. It behaves more like what
they call a hyper volatile body. And they also observed
what they described as microjets forming faint directional signatures and
evidence of repeated flare shaping due to the rotation. Now,
remember the NASA briefing on three Eye at lists, so
(04:16):
many questions and points were left unanswered and unaddressed. One
major point involves the Punch mission. These are four satellites
launched in March of this year by SpaceX for the
Southwest Research Team, and they orbit around six hundred kilometers
above Earth and are designed to create three D models
of solar winds. During the Mars conjunction with three I
(04:39):
at lists, the Punch satellites captured images that showed the
Comment and Mars together in frame. As reported by NASA Science,
These observations were collected between September twentieth and October third.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Imagine you start flying towards Marts right, Mars is going
to get bigger. Three atlass is going to be bigger
as well. And imagine new ste and on the Mars
and taking a look at the commat three Eye it's
going to be a jane out on this object. I
think that is something that we should have learned.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
According to NASA, this was the first time these solar
focused missions have deliberately observed an interstellar object, yet this
context was largely absent from the press conference discussion. Now
there's another theory that could explain the unusual anti tail
that we've been seeing. Astrophysicist Abby Lobe published an analysis
(05:31):
on medium that offers a mathematical explanation. JPL Horizon, which
is NASA's system for tracking objects in albur solar system,
has been reporting a non gravitational acceleration acting on three Ialys. Essentially,
something is pushing this object slightly away from the Sun.
What if three Ialys is not alone. What if it's
surrounded by a swarm of smaller objects that do not
(05:54):
share this non gravitational push. Think of it like this.
Imagine two cars driving to on a highway together at
the same speed. Now imagine a gentle wind starts pushing
only one of the cars slightly forward. Over time, that
car pulls ahead while the other one falls behind. That
is what the theory suggests might be happening. The main
(06:16):
object is getting a tiny push away from the Sun,
but the smaller objects traveling with it are not getting
the same push, so over time, those small objects drift
a little closer to the Sun while the main body
moves slightly away from it. The calculations show that smaller
objects traveling with three eyed atlas would drift about fifty
(06:37):
four thousand kilometers closer to the Sun than the main
body because they do not receive the same outward push,
and that matches the sun where glow astronomers are seeing
right now when you run the numbers, a trillion tiny objects,
even if they only weigh a fraction of the main body,
would have way more surface area to reflect light. But
(06:59):
although small pieces together would bounce back almost all of
the sunlight we're seeing glowing from three eye atlas, so
the brightness we're observing might not be coming from the object,
but it could be coming from countless smaller ones. Per
insights from analysis of the Hubble Space telescope images taken
on July twenty first, the ratio is consistent with the
(07:20):
fraction of light observed in the coma. If these objects
are not evaporating under solar heat, which the data suggests
they're not, this would maintain this anti tail geometry throughout
the entire journey, always pointing towards the Sun relative to
three Eye Atlas, and now three Eye Atlas is heading
towards Jupiter. But before the Jupiter encounter, three Eye Atlas
(07:43):
will reach its closest approach to Earth on December nineteenth.
It will be far enough that it's not a threat,
but close enough that ground based telescopes will get to
see it. Christina Gomez and that is it for today.
I will see you again tomorrow at ten AMPST for
another UFO news update. Be safe and remember keep your
eyes on the skies.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
In us to talk to Unock discuss me still lessen
soon and tarkonor scn pnigmavite blighted dispersal wo either saw
me Steady.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Your chair unt. If you enjoy today's show, hit that
like button and if.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
You're not subscribed, what are you waiting for? Hit notification
bell As I do daily UFO news and updates, thrashyap stories,
government disclosures, and breaking developments land here every single day.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Something
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