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Interstellar Comet - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 11/13/25

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🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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George Noory and Professor James McCanney discuss the latest with 3I/ATLAS. 

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.4

Now here's a highlight from coast-to-coast AM on IHart Radio.

0:09.1

James, does this comet act unusual for a comet?

0:14.7

Well, in the sense that it is, yes, it's a comet.

0:17.6

It is a comet, not an alien spacecraft.

0:20.6

What's going on is it's moving really fast.

0:23.6

So that does two things. And remember, it's a plasma discharge comet. It's not an ice ball.

0:29.8

It's not melting with the solar wind or something. So what's going on? It's discharging the solar

0:35.8

capacitor, but at a very high rate because it's moving very fast. So what's going on? It's discharging the solar capacitor, but at a very high rate because it's moving very

0:39.5

fast.

0:41.2

So that's number one.

0:42.6

And so it has a very high charge because it's moving very fast, it has a hard time

0:48.0

keeping a tail.

0:50.5

And because the material is coming in, it's like a bus coming down the street, and everybody's trying to jump on the bus, but the bus is going so fast you can't get on the bus.

1:00.6

That's what's going on with this comet.

1:02.3

So it gains a tail.

1:03.6

It'll lose a tail, depending on the material there.

1:07.4

One of the things that they've been querying over since the beginning July 2nd when this was

1:13.5

discovered is the anti-tail. And it is a very normal characteristic of all comets to have a sunward

1:21.7

spike. It's just that you can't see it with most slow-moving comets that we see in the solar

1:26.6

system. One of my predictions from 1979 when I first started all of this

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