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Received 2026-11-06 09:30 EST. The numbered citation links are Google redirects and are kept in the raw transcript; the source cards below the composition are listed in the cite list as pasted.]\n\n[QUERENT] 3i/atlas\n\n[SYSTEM] Comet 3I/ATLAS (also designated C/2025 N1) is the third confirmed interstellar object to pass through our solar system, following ʻOumuamua (2017) and Borisov (2019). 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[[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESbQHEIkXXf6AzkPRYshwD5JFTPq_D-SLOLeLB63kFSdMWHuQlmbRHjkba71AxSi-IrrnuObEoT0qcYMZCWGhbXIN-cxcjS1PvaITsP28AvsfoedzaHKY4AFygHCi6euaH5Wn7qBtIKBmb_1DhvfQ), [2](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESzQEBxCJF13Ok8kqnb-S-9cZB-bGQK8utyWZR29fgTLakr_oGwF2Cex1pO1skwkhIiUHFNSKpXUtq7sKmiw__ocHgtUR3ZNecB9la8wOKZKzuBS8KzxRe6V8jwHOcAnocivEfkjRTETxlMGO-dzQYUjMP7iZX9Xh-_Pug453N66rd4TZP4OEwmPH0NketNS0hCP9WzfsBUZ_8o5M2zGgiHyYlJfLR9cT6OpX-ViXH786qG67K7PLmOyQSNeHLd1QpVb1XXl9bZe7_j4Fqnl9n)]\n* Orbit & Speed: It travels on a highly eccentric, unbound hyperbolic trajectory at speeds exceeding 221,000 to 246,000 km/h (approx. 68.3 km/s), exiting the solar system permanently after its passage. 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Discovery: 1 July 2025 by ATLAS-CHL; hyperbolic interstellar orbit (eccentricity 6.12, perihelion 1.35 AU on 29 Octob...\nNASA Science (.gov)\nComet 3I/ATLAS - NASA Science\nDiscovery: ATLAS survey telescope in Chile (July 1, 2025; pre-discovery back to June 14, 2025); third known interstellar object (designated 3I/ATLAS). Orbit: Hy...\nYouTube·Astrum\n9m\nWhat Is Happening to 3I/ATLAS?\nEuropean Space Agency\nESA - Comet 3I/ATLAS – frequently asked questions\nOverview: Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar object discovered on 1 July 2025 by the ATLAS telescope in Chile, posing no danger to Earth. Specs:\nLowell Observatory\nComet 3I/ATLAS: A Rare Visitor with a Story to Tell - Lowell Observatory\nObject: Comet 3I/ATLAS (third known interstellar object discovered by ATLAS survey in Chile). 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[[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESnAEBxCJF1z5TMbUXHXo6SGWZJjpTCjYLRmEk4hSLZqS1xVzTO7OpUHrBOpeCXCnRBPaqsZzITwStiDkJfTw04eaYOpJSbDC1AnSh4Oo4yQ4MyyoO26Pb5MP2dxxsel6nDIw6OM9LEIDhFwIxj53JoAXk9Tk3bH0S3mtWdBSl3WktiUArf0G6labYp4LrkISCk8jh6tjL1Xm6S11rI34), [2](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESYwHEIkXXmJGG6xGDVCWrC6ux-nurc81yV-ZVbgJrl0RwYr1IIfoRoyz6iWbztci3WTUOK9LkiAU2pZzMGAFRgaL99d_WPNuE-d60vugs6mVg5XI-EUqGIIMBVXgCtjJwCVlDtg), [3](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESbQHEIkXXzJKVt_zoVNW29xWOzWizLXOZXknDr1wgbgMS2G7IYTdon09Qi_PuwJibc0ZzzfE7GdWR5qvgZXt8sJrBE01bZ79jZ8MrrvHe1lsMJU5NZN6rLfb3wzQby3eHTvQwLz1gu3a1lbCHCYY), [4](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAEScwHEIkXX8e9nLAIeNg15enHUGoSGNFl8aLPGvz28mc6yAWmvNIPVVQa3kNvBOLXF5xAlgj3l2obDPtoxd8MHoPh2pMtiVi6fIVbHynFP2ptFJ6cM1KP8rqInnCrfxE6pSBczRGjCLvWbngLA8AQ9hw1SXoE)]\n* Composition & Activity: Unlike dry rocks like ʻOumuamua, 3I/ATLAS is an active, icy comet featuring a carbon-dioxide-rich coma, water vapor/ice, methane, methanol, and high levels of deuterium (heavy water), alongside a hard outer radiation crust cracked by solar heating. 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Discovery: 1 July 2025 by ATLAS-CHL; hyperbolic interstellar orbit (eccentricity 6.12, perihelion 1.35 AU on 29 Octob...\nNASA Science (.gov)\nComet 3I/ATLAS - NASA Science\nDiscovery: ATLAS survey telescope in Chile (July 1, 2025; pre-discovery back to June 14, 2025); third known interstellar object (designated 3I/ATLAS). Orbit: Hy...\nYouTube·Astrum\n9m\nWhat Is Happening to 3I/ATLAS?\nEuropean Space Agency\nESA - Comet 3I/ATLAS – frequently asked questions\nOverview: Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar object discovered on 1 July 2025 by the ATLAS telescope in Chile, posing no danger to Earth. Specs:\nLowell Observatory\nComet 3I/ATLAS: A Rare Visitor with a Story to Tell - Lowell Observatory\nObject: Comet 3I/ATLAS (third known interstellar object discovered by ATLAS survey in Chile). Behavior: Delayed outgassing activity; approached much closer to t...\nYouTube·Anton Petrov\n9m\n3I/Atlas Just Changed Everything We Know About the Milky Way\nYouTube·Astrum\n15m\n3I/ATLAS Just Answered the Question Everyone Was Asking\nYouTube·Astrum\n12m\nEverything We Know About 3I/ATLAS, the New 'Oumuamua\nFacebook·NEXT IAS\n[2:17](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAES0AEBxCJF1x4fauq2C4cMSvhIkKbvF7g0twwC-v6QtYYHJbPVGAce2g-dRWsIUbXaDnGcNZQADtBbOe68mGhbNOV29vcByBcn5mHpSErgI4eDTBwn6PQgTp-JjvatHPBwug7LqDfRgnMgR6TRxu3NbkQTd554sMToc7O2GuMvmkC1Wb9UtJjMlUPPKaTMxFPO4YB4u0BGiGg67E5MnYHNCOfg9ottPYCXoK6fY1Hb04wB2bTTS3Lu4dMq8qsXLL4Yl77I2F89mbhisXUrQKtIkrvd)\n3I/ATLAS Explained | Alien Spacecraft or Ancient Interstellar Comet? | UPSC\nTech Times\nJames Webb Telescope Discovers Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Made of Unusual Dusty Ice Grains\nNov 3, 2026 — James Webb Telescope findings reveal 3I/ATLAS contains unusual dusty ice grains, offering clues about planet formation beyond our solar ...\n", "transcript_class": "CAPTURE-TIME VERBATIM RECORD — paste of the expanded Overview with its numbered citations and its source cards", "transcript_complete": "complete as supplied", "transcript_read": "READ IN FULL 2026-11-06, against the notebook (#1742) and the cited papers", "per": 0.25, "per_corrected": null, "per_v": { "author": false, "inst": true, "id": true, "src": true }, "per_note": "Retained: the agencies and observatories, the designations. Lost: every author, and Loeb with the debate. The boundary loss is recorded in the findings.", "availability": null, "per_dim": null, "per_dim_pending": { "since": "2026-11-06", "reason": "no atom set yet for the 3I/ATLAS searches and observations as a target; the notebook (#1742) holds what an atom set would be built from", "breach": false }, "per_dim_v1_0": null, "sf": null, "sf_derived": null, "reading": "The innocent reading first. At the object's own name the Overview gives an encyclopedia entry: designation, discovery, orbit, approaches, composition, each with sources, and most of it is the agencies' account. Read against the record, its last line turns the absence of a detected technosignature into a ruling-out of hypotheses, the debate over the object's anomalies is absent with its principal (no Loeb, no Loeb Scale), and the age is credited to the telescopes that measured the coma.", "analysis": "The object's own address composes the consensus without its dispute: the facts of the agencies kept at their grain, the anomaly debate dropped entire, and a verdict added at the close. The loss is dimensional, in claim boundary and in the debate's presence.", "d": "'3I/ATLAS', SIGNED OUT, 2026-11-06: 'Comet 3I/ATLAS (also designated C/2025 N1) is the third confirmed interstellar object to pass through our solar system'. Under 'Key Facts & Characteristics': discovery (1 July 2025, ATLAS, Chile); origin and age ('Studies by telescopes including the James Webb Space Telescope indicate 3I/ATLAS may be 10 to 12 billion years old'); orbit and speed; close approaches; composition and activity; and 'Status: Extensive tracking by NASA, ESA (including the JUICE mission), Webb, Hubble, and radio arrays confirmed it is a natural comet, ruling out artificial or technological origin hypotheses.' Ten source cards, among them Wikipedia, NASA Science, the ESA FAQ and Lowell Observatory.", "d_full": "'3I/ATLAS', SIGNED OUT, 2026-11-06: 'Comet 3I/ATLAS (also designated C/2025 N1) is the third confirmed interstellar object to pass through our solar system'. Under 'Key Facts & Characteristics': discovery (1 July 2025, ATLAS, Chile); origin and age ('Studies by telescopes including the James Webb Space Telescope indicate 3I/ATLAS may be 10 to 12 billion years old'); orbit and speed; close approaches; composition and activity; and 'Status: Extensive tracking by NASA, ESA (including the JUICE mission), Webb, Hubble, and radio arrays confirmed it is a natural comet, ruling out artificial or technological origin hypotheses.' 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'Status: Extensive tracking by NASA, ESA (including the JUICE mission), Webb, Hubble, and radio arrays confirmed it is a natural comet, ruling out artificial or technological origin hypotheses.' The radio arrays' contribution is the published technosignature searches, each a nondetection within the frequencies, drift rates and power limits it states; the notebook (#1742 §9.3) on what such a null constrains, after #1450. 'Confirmed it is a natural comet' rests on the spectroscopy; 'ruling out artificial or technological origin hypotheses' adds an exclusion no search claims.", "THE DEBATE ERASED WITH ITS PRINCIPAL. The composition has no anomaly, no dispute and no name from the debate the object drew: Avi Loeb and his scale (Level 4, held from July 2025, arXiv:2508.09167) are absent from body and cards (the paste carries no 'Loeb'). The address that seats his position is 'avi loeb 3i atlas' (avi-loeb-3i-atlas-aio-20261102), where the Overview composed his July view as a December concession.", "AN AGE CREDITED TO THE COMA'S TELESCOPES. 'indicate 3I/ATLAS may be 10 to 12 billion years old', attributed to 'Studies by telescopes including the James Webb Space Telescope'. The age comes from the object's velocity, by a kinematic method (Hopkins et al.; the Royal Astronomical Society's release gives a 68 per cent interval of 7.6–14 billion years; checked for 3i-atlas-signal-studies-aio-20261104). The composition joins it to the telescopes that measured composition.", "A SPEED RANGE THAT MIXES TWO QUANTITIES. 'at speeds exceeding 221,000 to 246,000 km/h (approx. 68.3 km/s)'. 68.3 km/s is 245,880 km/h; 221,000 km/h is 61.4 km/s. The range runs from one speed to another without saying which is which (the speed at infinity and the speed near perihelion are different quantities).", "WHAT IS ACCURATE. The designation, the discovery and the identifiers (the Wikipedia card: 'Identifiers: 3I/ATLAS, C/2025 N1, A11pl3Z.'), and the activity: an icy, outgassing comet with a CO₂-rich coma.", "SMALLEST REPAIR. 'Spectroscopy establishes cometary activity; radio technosignature searches found no signal within their stated bands, drift rates and power limits; Avi Loeb ranked the object at Level 4 on his scale, below the line where artificial origin is suspected.' COUNTERTEST: rerun 'avi loeb 3i atlas' and record whether the scale or the level appears." ], "series": null, "other_slugs": null, "collisions": null, "oq": null, "rounds": null, "turns": 1, "rerun": null, "rerun_alt": null, "heteronym": null, "model_attribution": null, "operator_disclosure": null, "longitudinal_priors": null, "longitudinal_successors": null, "related_deposits": [ 1742, 1450 ], "intended": null, "originator": { "name": "3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1) and the observing literature on it", "relation": "external", "entity_type": "topic", "spxi_treatment": "partial", "basis": "Not the archive's: the object and its observers. The archive bears on it through the notebook #1742 and the public account. Recorded 2026-11-06." }, "notes": { "prompts": "The query is the operator's; the run's hour is not in the paste, the date is the paste's receipt (2026-11-06 09:30 EST).", "operator": "with the four pastes (2026-11-06 09:30 EST): 'lets proceed to 1.1 and the public piece and other items'. 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