“What they uncovered was the ‘skin’ of the object … some ices and perhaps some dust that evaporates when the sun illuminates that surface,” Loeb explained to NewsNation. “Even if you consider spacecraft that travels through the core of the interstellar medium, it would accumulate over time — ices and dust on it.”
Loeb maintains that December 19 will reveal crucial information about the object’s origin.
In a separate NewsNation interview, he added:
“Let’s wait and see. Bureaucrats or unimaginative scientists want us to believe in the expected, but the rest of us know the best is yet to come.”
Loeb says he has identified 12 anomalies that could point to unconventional origins—fueling speculation about aliens.
Michio Kaku Says Age Explains 31/ATLAS’s Mystery
Another physicist, Michio Kaku, offers a calmer take, saying the comet’s extraordinary age—over 7 billion years—is the source of its odd properties.
“Over 7 billion years, it’s had plenty of time to accumulate different gases, different elements, different kinds of environments that it goes into,” Kaku told NewsNation. “I think that explains a lot of the mystery behind the comet.”
