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A Steeply-Rising Production of Cyanide and Nickel Without Iron in the Gas Plume Around 3I/ATLAS | by Avi Loeb | Aug, 2025

A Steeply-Rising Production of Cyanide and Nickel Without Iron in the Gas Plume Around 3I/ATLAS | by Avi Loeb | Aug, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size Logarithm of the nickel mass loss rate from 3I/ATLAS (vertical axis) as a function of heliocentric distance (horizontal axis). Blue circles show Very Large Telescope/X-shooter measurements of 3I/ATLAS and the black solid curve is a power–law fit to the data with a power-law index of −8.43±0.79. Colored symbols compare with …

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