Ladies and gentlemen, @deschscoveries.bsky.social and @astrowright.bsky.social called it months ago. In Avi Loebs latest he claims the line " I always said it was most likely natural , my stance hasn't changed". The man is a modern day grifter and a plague on science.

I helped Professor Dave lay out exactly how Avi Loeb has manufactured doubt and pushed a false narrative about 3I/ATLAS, which is still an interstellar comet. Please enjoy the video and please repost this to share the word.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf9o...

Here's our captioned release:

www.uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_08...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS webcast double feature today (19 November): first at 4:15 UTC on www.youtube.com/watch?v=krU8... the next attempt of a live observation from Italy - and then at 20:00 UTC on www.youtube.com/watch?v=A55S... a NASA press conference with spacecraft observations.

It looks like our interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS has finally gotten a dust tail. Very nice picture from
ICQ Comet Observations
Satoru Murata
2025-11-16 11:53:50~12:23:20 UTC
New Mexico, USA

We now have astrometric data from on 3I/ATLAS from the Mars
Trace Gas Orbiter.

TGO is in the MPCD as V132!

Good work ESA! Hopefully soon we will see Psyche and MRO astrometry up there soon.

www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

You can look here at the orbit freely publicly available and updated as soon as new observations are reported. The Orbit Viewer is good to play with if you want to get a sense of motion through time

We are 100% right now.

No one who knows anything about comets is worried. You can relax!

Don't worry. Real questions never bother me.

On our interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS: Its perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) is tomorrow at 11:32:07 UTC!

We have a new PUNCH magnitude estimate from astronomer Thomas Lehmann. If indeed the total brightness has gone up by a magnitude, that would be good for Juice.

BTW, we have enough lower resolution data around and after the Mars photo op to be sure 3I isn't up to that much. It's not changing its orbit much, for example.

Observing 3I/ATLAS from space is not like taking a picture of pretty cloud out of the window of a train or bus. This is more like designing multiple pop-up space missions on the fly in a very compressed time. A bunch of people have worked very hard for weeks to get the data we are getting.

Yes, we'll get good data from MRO and Juice, and are getting right now cruder updates from PUNCH, CCOR-1 and LASCO, to somewhat better than an arc minute (~90,000 km at 2 AU). While that's not that accurate compared to most astrometry, it does mean 3I is not zooming off in some random direction.

Two new analyses of PUNCH wide field imager data on our interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS, both using more processed PUNCH data.

There is a general agreement on a spike around October 3rd - during the Mars spacecraft photography period!

However, the Oct 13 points do not agree well. Still more to do...

I found some time to work out some of the things that are wrong in Loeb's latest calculation.

When you are fitting data, you are not sensitive to all deviations from your model, only those that your model can't absorb!

Anyway, happy to receive corrections from Planetary Science Bluesky.

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So are all the click-bait 3I/Atlas doom posters going to STFU now that precisely nothing wild and doomy has happened?

We were not in fact being invaded by a marauding armada, or given incredible alien insights to undeservedly help us.