3 i Atlas

[BeyondKnowledge]

Wouldn't it throw off trajectories if they performed a "slingshot maneuver " ?

Come in at angle to a star for instance and leave at an entirely different one ?

You need to play a space simulator app to understand. Everything is in orbit around something. To get from object to object, you alter your orbit to changing it to intercept where you want to go. But you have to get there when it is there and not aim for where it is when you leave. When you get there, you alter your orbit to go around where you planned to go.

Everything works by orbital physics unless a thrust is applied or an impact occurs, or you enter an atmosphere.

Slingshotting is just another planned orbital calculation. I don't pretend to know all of the calculations involved. I let the navigation computer handle that. 

Oh, any engine burn is most fuel efficient when nearest the object being orbited. In this case, the Sun. The most orbital change occurs from the least fuel expended.

[chr0naut]

If it is alien and they have bad ass spying equipment hopefully Elon can cloak a rocket and blow it up on his way to Mars.  [Image: https://denyignorance.com//images/addsmilies/rocket.gif]

You are right, people would freak out here!

Imagine if they loaded enough ordinance to vaporize something the size of a city, and it blew up on the launchpad, like all the others of Elon's?

How big a crater do you think that might make?

[Quantum12]

Imagine if they loaded enough ordinance to vaporize something the size of a city, and it blew up on the launchpad, like all the others of Elon's?

How big a crater do you think that might make?

lol, Elon is the best at blowing up things. With super super space x a big crater!

[David64]

lol, Elon is the best at blowing up things. With super super space x a big crater!

They're not blowing things up, according to NASA it's just Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly. lol.

[BeyondKnowledge]

lol, Elon is the best at blowing up things. With super super space x a big crater!

You have to find out what breaks them to understand how not to break them.

Look at how many NASA broke before they slowed down breaking them.

[chr0naut]

Hi everyone,

Im curious to know what others think about this object flying through our solar system and the even bigger object thats following it.

Ive r3ad reports of the object disappearing, then reappearing 17 minutes later.
Does anyone have any idea what it actually is?

Is there anything that suggests it isn't like all the other clumps of stuff that have fallen past us, previously? I mean in hard objective and measurable terms, not in speculations and fuzzy approximations?

[TrithFPV]

Key oddities of 3I/ATLAS include:

• Unusual trajectory. The object's path through the inner solar system is nearly aligned with the orbital plane of the planets, also known as the ecliptic plane, which has a very low probability of occurring by chance for an interstellar object.
  
• "Reverse" glowing. Rather than a trailing tail of gas and dust like a typical comet, 3I/ATLAS appears to have a jet of material moving toward the sun.
  
• Anomalous chemical composition. Observations show that 3I/ATLAS is unusually rich in carbon dioxide and contains a significantly higher ratio of nickel to iron than any other known comet.
  
• High velocity. 3I/ATLAS is traveling at a higher speed than the previously discovered interstellar objects, 'Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov, which is faster than can be accounted for by the sun's gravity alone.
  
• Wow! Signal connection. Loeb has also noted a 0.6% probability that the object's path is aligned with the location of the 1977 "Wow! Signal," a brief but powerful radio signal of unknown origin. 
  

I'm not sure about the last oddity regarding the Wow! signal. But props to thinking outside the box. We will know when it exits the blind spot behind the sun whether its following our projected path, or if something outside of our understanding is controlling it. 

Time will tell! ;)

[Quantum12]

My opinion is it is the wow signal. It’s a ship made of nickel. It’s going to reverse propulsion before it gets out of our blocked suns path.

[KKLoco]

This guy is doing a live stream right now of the first images and video released from an institution in Europe. It has no tail.

[Darkorange]

it could be a generation spaceship...

although I think, if they are truly an advanced civilization, then the vessel has exited a wormhole in a vicinity of Solar system, giving us an impression of a lone traveler from far away...))