The Odds Are 1 in 40,000: Avi Loeb Explains 3I/ATLAS' Impossible Alignment

Source: International Business Times

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is once again challenging astronomers' assumptions, after Harvard professor Avi Loeb proposed what he termed its 14th anomaly. According to Loeb, the object's rotation axis appears to point almost directly toward the Sun, a configuration he says has odds of just one in 40,000 of occurring by chance. This is yet another in a litany of oddities discovered about 3I/ATLAS, which entered the solar system earlier this year.