3I Atlas

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Anyone following the third interstellar object flying through our solar system?

It will get as close as 1.5x the distance from the sun...no danger but so rare that all the telescopes are going to be taking a look to see what we can discover about this time capsule and its 10 million year trip across the universe.
 
wil said:
Anyone following the third interstellar object flying through our solar system?

It will get as close as 1.5x the distance from the sun...no danger but so rare that all the telescopes are going to be taking a look to see what we can discover about this time capsule and its 10 million year trip across the universe.
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Very interesting, especially because it is interstellar. .. observers know this because of it's 'more-flat' trajectory around the Sun. Unless it hits something in our Solar system it will pass on, out and away in to space.
I'll bet that researchers are observing the light which it omits through every kind of spectrum analytics machine that they've got in order to find out what material it is made up out of.
I wonder if it is composed of similar material to that found in our own comets and asteroids?
 
Observatories and telescopes are lining up to discern all they can, each offering their specific tech, filters, ability during the short window of observation we have.

Interesting metaphor our life on earth eh?
 
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