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Oct 19, 2025

It is unclear if these spacecraft will sample the tail because the density of the outflow declines inversely with distance squared from 3I/ATLAS and the solar wind and solar radiation may confine it on a scale of a million kilometers, much less than the closest distance of these probes from 3I/ATLAS.

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Avi Loeb
Avi Loeb

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