Let's speculate...31/Atlas is a little different from most comets.
The Imminent Solar Conjunction of 3I/ATLAS
As of now, 3I/ATLAS appears most likely to be a natural comet. But the remote possibility of an Oberth maneuver must be considered seriously as a black swan event with a small probability, because of its huge implications for humanity. Since its discovery on July 1, 2025, 3I/ATLAS was ranked 4 on the Loeb scale (quantified here and here) because of 8 anomalies:
1. The trajectory of 3I/ATLAS is aligned to within 5 degrees with the ecliptic plane of the planets around the Sun (see here).
2. 3I/ATLAS showed a sunward jet (anti-tail) that is not an optical illusion from geometric perspective, unlike familiar comets (see here).
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3. 3I/ATLAS is about a million times more massive than 1I/`Oumuamua and a thousand times more massive than 2I/Borisov, while moving faster than both (see here and here).
4. The arrival time of 3I/ATLAS allows it to pass within tens of millions of kilometers from Mars, Venus and Jupiter and be unobservable from Earth at perihelion (see here).
5. The gas plume around 3I/ATLAS contains much more nickel than iron (as found in industrially-produced nickel alloys) and a nickel to cyanide ratio that is orders of magnitude larger than that of all known comets, including 2I/Borisov (see here).
6. The gas plume of 3I/ATLAS contains only 4% water by mass, a primary constituent of familiar comets (see here).
7. 3I/ATLAS showed extreme negative polarization, unprecedented for all known comets, including 2I/Borisov (see here).
8. 3I/ATLAS arrived from a direction coincident with the radio “Wow! Signal” to within 9 degrees (see here).
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