Assessing interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with the 10.4M Gran Telescopio Canarias

5 bikenaga 1 7/20/2025, 10:32:57 PM arxiv.org โ†—

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grues-dinner ยท 4h ago
From the paper:

> The kinematic properties of interstellar interlopers are expected to preserve for the most part the kinematic signatures of their host stars.

That's quite interesting - a cosmic ShotSpotter of sorts. I hadn't considered that the object's track would be roughly still pointing at the star system whence it came, but I suppose in interstellar space, things would move in pretty straight lines.