Feasibility assessment finds natural panspermia via shielded ice in ISOs plausible under low-metabolic survival but directed panspermia unlikely due to destructive impact energies, treating such objects as diagnostic test cases rather than evidence of life.
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Prospects for Panspermia via Interstellar Objects like 3I/ATLAS
Feasibility assessment finds natural panspermia via shielded ice in ISOs plausible under low-metabolic survival but directed panspermia unlikely due to destructive impact energies, treating such objects as diagnostic test cases rather than evidence of life.