Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas Passed Mars Last Night

Re:Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas Passed Mars Last Night by ceejayoz on Friday October 03, 2025 @07:41PM (#45469049)

It is. It’s similarly unlikely that I win the lottery. But someone always does!

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Re:Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas Passed Mars Last Night by baggy_trough on Saturday October 04, 2025 @02:44PM (#45475614)

The situations are in no way analogous.

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Re:Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas Passed Mars Last Night by ceejayoz on Saturday October 04, 2025 @03:10PM (#45475819)

Sure they are. There are likely trillions of these things. We are likely gonna see them everywhere. Like scratch-off lottery cards.

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Re:Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas Passed Mars Last Night by baggy_trough on Saturday October 04, 2025 @05:28PM (#45476873)

We have seen 3.

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Re:Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas Passed Mars Last Night by ceejayoz on Monday October 06, 2025 @08:00AM (#45490425)

Yes. In very quick succession, right after we put the tech in place to find them.

In the mid 1990s we’d only seen a handful of exoplanets. That they were basically everywhere we looked early on clued us in to their prevalence.

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Re:Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas Passed Mars Last Night by baggy_trough on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @12:34PM (#45505330)

We have seen 3 and one of them makes a very close pass to 2 major planets. Seems very unlikely.

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Re:Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas Passed Mars Last Night by ceejayoz on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @05:00PM (#45508801)

If you are unaware of gravity, sure. It is accelerating towards the sun, which also happens to be where the planets are.

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Re:Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas Passed Mars Last Night by baggy_trough on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @10:09AM (#45516388)

I urge you to take a look at how much empty space there is around the Sun.

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