https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/df1be7e1-dc5e-46fc-9e00-397021f1ad37?artifactId=54190687-840f-4e7b-afee-216815cff1e5 Abstract The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has presented a triad of observational puzzles—dynamical, chemical, and contextual—that have fueled speculation of artificial origins. Its trajectory deviates from a purely gravitational path, its coma is dominated by carbon dioxide and enriched with nickel vapor in the absence of corresponding iron, and its interstellar nature places it in a category of intense scrutiny. This paper advances the thesis that these anomalies are fully explicable within the framework of standard physics by modeling the object not as a simple point mass, but as a complex thermodynamic system. We posit the existence of an internal, metastable, phase-change substrate, termed "SAT-class meta-ice," which serves as a chemical energy reservoir. Employing a Lagrangian/Hamiltonian framework, our analysis demonstrates how energy is systematic...