A recently discovered comet twice the size of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs has unusual characteristics and a 40% chance of following a deliberately designed trajectory, Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb told Newsmax on Tuesday.

Loeb told “Finnerty” that the comet known as 3I/ATLAS, now passing through our solar system, shows several anomalies that make it unlikely to be an ordinary space rock.

“Well, if it’s a rock, it’s too big to be delivered to our neighborhood once per decade,” Loeb said. “A rock of 20 kilometers [over 12 miles] in diameter should arrive once per 10,000 years or so. And moreover, there is no cometary tail behind it. There is a little bit of fuzz ahead of it, some glow that could be just dirt on its surface that was evaporated by the sunlight.”

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