David Kipping

And then it will observe again on the way out in November.

So it's going to be behind the sun.

Yeah.

So that was the other thing Avi was pointing out was the trajectory is a little bit suspicious because it kind of goes behind the sun.

We can't observe it when it's at closest approach.

That's called perihelion.

We can't observe it then because it just happens to be behind the sun.

And it comes very close to Mars as well.

So it comes within about 0.2 astronomical units of Mars.

So it's not like it would be a threat to Mars.

It's still really far out.

But it comes suspiciously close, Avi claimed.

And to me, I don't buy that as evidence for aliens because if they're aliens, they seem more interested in Mars than they do the Earth.

Why would you choose your closest approach to be when you can't even observe the Earth at all because you're behind the sun?

And the closest planet you come to...

That doesn't make a lot of sense to me as to what the motive there would be.

So, yeah, and I think the fact now it just clearly looks like a comet kind of pours a lot of cold water on it.

But I do think it's not a crazy idea that this could be happening.

It's a valid scientific hypothesis that there could be stuff going through our solar system, which is not natural.

And we're going to detect hundreds of these things with the Rubin telescope.