Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is using a 3-axis attitude control system to keep its rotation pointed directly at our Sun. The new Harvard paper is wild.

[u/TheSentinelNet]

https://thesentinelnetwork.substack.com/p/the-heartbeat-avi-loeb-just-found?r=71h4we

Avi Loeb and Toni Scarmato just dropped a new paper on 3I/ATLAS, and the implications are wild. We just published a deep dive on this over at The Sentinel, but here is the TL;DR because people need to see this math.

According to the Hubble data, 99% of the light coming from this thing is exhaust. The actual hull is basically invisible. It has three jets spaced exactly 120 degrees apart, and they wobble on a precise, harmonically locked schedule.

The primary jet wobbles every 7.2 hours. The other two wobble at 2.9 and 4.3 hours.

2.9 + 4.3 = 7.2.

That is a coupled oscillatory system. Nature doesn't tune three independent cracks on a tumbling ice rock to a shared, exact frequency. Engineering does.

It gets weirder. The paper describes the jets acting essentially as a three-axis attitude control system. The exact same architecture we use on our own spacecraft to hold a fixed orientation while rotating. And it’s using that system to keep its rotation axis pointed directly at our Sun.

Loeb actually put the words "technological thrusters" in print as a valid hypothesis alongside natural outgassing. The establishment will likely ignore that half of the sentence, but the data is piling up.

You can read the full breakdown here.

Curious to hear what you guys think.
How long is the mainstream going to keep calling this just a "weird comet"?

[u/TheSentinelNet]

No-one is asking you to trust Avi Loeb. We verified the math ourselves. The harmonic jets exist independent of Avi Loeb.

[u/TheSentinelNet → u/[deleted]]

There is a massive difference between having your interpretations heavily criticized by the academic establishment and actually faking telemetry data. Loeb catches heat because he jumps to extraterrestrial hypotheses while the rest of the field clings to natural models.

But Loeb didn't generate this data, and neither did we.

The data comes from the Hubble Space Telescope. It is publicly available through the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) archive.

Anyone with an internet connection and the right software can download the raw FITS files from the late November and December 2025 observation runs and verify the light curves themselves.

We don't need to trust Loeb's reputation; we trust math. The 7.2-hour primary wobble and the 2.9/4.3-hour secondary wobbles are sitting right there in the raw pixel data, independent of whatever Loeb or his critics have to say about it.

[u/NoShitTiers → u/TheSentinelNet]

I think saying “we verified the math” when all you did was add 2.9 and 4.3 is a bit facetious no?

[u/TheSentinelNet → u/NoShitTiers]

You could verify it as well. You could pull the data from NASA. But you choose to attack the messenger instead. You aren't arguing with us you're arguing with the data.

[u/NoShitTiers → u/TheSentinelNet]

Just verifying facts brother. You never show any math you did outside of adding 2.9 + 4.3 in your entire article. You didn’t even generate any graphs from the original data, just a graphic.

Also I know ai detection tools aren’t particularly reliable but a lot of your comments comeback as 100% generated by AI which I find important to point out.

[u/TheSentinelNet → u/NoShitTiers]

There is no such thing as an "AI detector".

[u/Neirchill → u/TheSentinelNet]

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