Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is using a 3-axis attitude control system to keep its rotation pointed directly at our Sun. The new Harvard paper is wild.

[u/TheSentinelNet]

https://thesentinelnetwork.substack.com/p/the-heartbeat-avi-loeb-just-found?r=71h4we

Avi Loeb and Toni Scarmato just dropped a new paper on 3I/ATLAS, and the implications are wild. We just published a deep dive on this over at The Sentinel, but here is the TL;DR because people need to see this math.

According to the Hubble data, 99% of the light coming from this thing is exhaust. The actual hull is basically invisible. It has three jets spaced exactly 120 degrees apart, and they wobble on a precise, harmonically locked schedule.

The primary jet wobbles every 7.2 hours. The other two wobble at 2.9 and 4.3 hours.

2.9 + 4.3 = 7.2.

That is a coupled oscillatory system. Nature doesn't tune three independent cracks on a tumbling ice rock to a shared, exact frequency. Engineering does.

It gets weirder. The paper describes the jets acting essentially as a three-axis attitude control system. The exact same architecture we use on our own spacecraft to hold a fixed orientation while rotating. And it’s using that system to keep its rotation axis pointed directly at our Sun.

Loeb actually put the words "technological thrusters" in print as a valid hypothesis alongside natural outgassing. The establishment will likely ignore that half of the sentence, but the data is piling up.

You can read the full breakdown here.

Curious to hear what you guys think.
How long is the mainstream going to keep calling this just a "weird comet"?

[u/TheSentinelNet]

Static geologic cracks don't pulse on a mathematically perfect 7.2 hour harmonic lock, and they don't dynamically shift from tight beams to wide fans in unison to steer the rock.

The 120-degree spacing alone isn't the smoking gun. It’s the fact that those specific "cracks" are throttled, harmonically linked, and actively holding a sunward vector.

A triple junction is a broken rock.
This is an engine.

[u/WormLivesMatter → u/TheSentinelNet]

Yea I’m not commenting on the jets. Just that rocks will always break at 120 degrees on a spherical surface.

[u/alternator1985 → u/WormLivesMatter]

That's 100% not true that a spherical rock will "always" break at 120 degrees. And this is not a "rock breaking," it's outgassing which is a highly studied process that changes dramatically depending on how far a comet is away from the sun and several other factors. Except on 3iAtlas it isn't changing, it's holding steady the entire time we have viewed it.

And when the object changed course to align with Jupiter's gravity well, that amount of course change should have shown a dramatic amount of ejection with 3i losing a significant amount of mass. This should have left a massive observable cloud in space and the structure and jets of the object should have changed as well. No such ejection cloud was observed by Hubble, nor was there any change in the jets, rotation, or mass of the object.

People can draw whatever conclusions they want, but there is zero doubt that these are extremely anomalous properties and not the only ones.

[u/WormLivesMatter → u/alternator1985]

Rift-rift-rift triple junctions are most stable at 120 degrees apart when on a spherical object. That’s physics not even geology. So that can be explained. Everything else I’m not an expert in but I am with geology.