How to Distinguish Extraterrestrial Spacecraft from Interstellar Rocks?

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superdickduck · 16h ago

The discovery of interstellar objects over the past decade raises an important question that could shape the future of humanity: how to distinguish extraterrestrial spacecraft from interstellar asteroids? Both types of objects reflect sunlight. However, no telescope on Earth can resolve a hundred-meter object — the scale of our largest rocket — Starship, from a distance of about a billion kilometers — the distance where 3I/ATLAS was discovered on July 1, 2025.

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How to Distinguish Extraterrestrial Spacecraft from Interstellar Rocks?

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