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Quantitative Mapping of the Loeb Scale | by Avi Loeb | Sep, 2025

Quantitative Mapping of the Loeb Scale | by Avi Loeb | Sep, 2025

Press enter or click to view image in full size (Credit: PUNCHAN/ISTOCKPHOTO) A new paper (accessible here) that I co-authored with the brilliant graduate student at Vanderbilt University, Oem Trivedi, provides a framework for quantifying the Loeb Scale in the classification of interstellar objects as natural or technological. The recent astronomical discovery of a third interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, following 1I/‘Oumuamua …

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