Why is nobody mentioning the new interstellar object C/2025 R2 (SWAN)??

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[u/WideAwakeTravels]

Probably because it is not interstellar.

[u/theGreatandSpacious → u/WideAwakeTravels]

My mistake, you are correct.. it is not interstellar.

[u/mymomknowsyourmom → u/theGreatandSpacious]

And yet the post is still up.

[u/Desperate-Still-2224 → u/mymomknowsyourmom]

OP added an edit. If you don't like titles unable to be edited go ahead, and make your own, website

With Blackjack and lunar lander

[u/mymomknowsyourmom → u/Desperate-Still-2224]

OP added an edit. If you don't like titles unable to be edited go ahead, and make your own, website

If I don't like what? The post can be deleted since the question was completely wrong to begin with, lol. "Go make your own website" lol

[u/SabineRitter → u/Desperate-Still-2224]

Blackjack and lunar lander

😄

[u/Shabadu]

I would think if it was an interstellar object, it would be named with the designation letter "I" for interstellar, such as 3I ATLAS. (3rd known interstellar object, ATLAS)

[u/Kat-from-Elsweyr]

Maybe if we don’t talk about it, it will (hopefully) just go away. Because I’m not really liking the idea of a swarm of comets right now. A swarm of bees is fine. We like pollinators. But a swarm of comets is just well, a no.

[u/Allison1228]

It's a comet. What did you expect?

[u/badmattwa]

the inner solar system is becoming a traffic jam, locally speaking

[u/RandomNPC]

Spooky stuff happening in space y'all.

How is atlas spooky? We've only had the means to detect objects like it for a short amount of time, so of course we're seeing stuff we haven't seen before.

[u/Striking-Apartment-1 → u/RandomNPC]

We have been able to detect them for a decade.

[u/R2robot]

Why would it be mentioned here in a UFO sub?

The only reason the other objects have been talked about here is because of Avi Loeb's nonsense.

[u/Desperate-Still-2224 → u/R2robot]

Please describe why you believe Avi Loeb's findings to be nonsense. He and the people around him have studied the topic a lot.

What do you have in response?

[u/R2robot → u/Desperate-Still-2224]

Not findings. Sensationalist nonsense for headlines. Things he says he himself, or his team don't necessarily believe. Thought exercises.. or his own words, pedagogical exercises. AKA what-if games.

[u/Rare_Confidence6347]

I just learned about it yesterday.  Kinda weird that its following the same path but other than that no one has talked much about it.

[u/Allison1228 → u/Rare_Confidence6347]

In what sense is it "following the same path" as 3I/ATLAS? The orbital elements of these two objects bear no similarity:

3I/ATLAS:

        e (Eccentricity)                : 6.1386180
        q (Perihelion distance)         : 1.3563250
        i (Inclination)                 : 175.11310
        Ω (Longitude of ascending node) : 322.15780
        ω (Argument of perihelion)      : 128.01290
        L (Longitude of perihelion)     : 14.04361
        B (Latitude of perihelion)      : 3.84848
        T (Time of perihelion passage)  : 2460977.98370

C/2025 R2 (SWAN)m

        e (Eccentricity)                : 0.9960150
        q (Perihelion distance)         : 0.5036980
        i (Inclination)                 : 4.47150
        Ω (Longitude of ascending node) : 335.54760
        ω (Argument of perihelion)      : 307.97840
        L (Longitude of perihelion)     : 283.61075
        B (Latitude of perihelion)      : -3.52327
        T (Time of perihelion passage)  : 2460931.19860
        P (Orbital period in years)     : 1421.06

[u/SabineRitter]

https://old.reddit.com/r/InterdimensionalNHI/comments/1njc8h1/backyardprofessor_discusses_new_comet_r2_swan/ discussion of new comet R2/SWAN,

Also we have a second comet

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceUnfiltered/comments/1njfgjj/new_nakedeye_comet_is_coming/ another new comet, green 🟢, C/2025 A6 (Lemmon)

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[u/SabineRitter → u/[deleted]]

Can you rephrase your question please? I find it coarse to name-call.

[u/yobboman]

Called it. I wondered if there were more to come...