3 Atlas: A Deuterium-Rich Enigma Prompting Origin Questions
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3 Atlas is a strange object along the plane of the planets with about 1000 times more deuterium than normal, raising questions of natural versus potentially alien origin, Bethe’s radiative loss argument rules out a deuterium explosion, Avi Loeb urges continued investigation with better sensors, Obama and Trump acknowledge we don’t understand it, and a recent essay lists 22 anomalies that hint more discoveries may come.
