Deep Impact

a 3IATLAS update

I know what you’re thinking – what we need right now is an intervention…

a message, a diversion, a spectacular event which unites rather than divides.

Well there’s nothing like the possibility of an alien invasion or comet getting a bit close for comfort to get us all together, right?

And so in this respect, we can already thank 3IATLAS for the heart-warming potential it offers our polarised civilisation.

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This week’s article is an update featuring all the new news about the ‘It’s Not-a Comet!’ interstellar visitor hurtling towards an imminent rendezvous with Mars.

But if you need a catch up on the basics and the mythological significance of 3IATLAS, you can get that from my previous article here:

Ok - caught up? Good. But what’s the new news?

Well I daresay it’s already marked on your calendar, but hours from now - 3IATLAS will have its near miss with the red planet tomorrow (Friday, 3^rd October) and this should give the local probes a chance to get a closer look and give us more information.

The hype around 3IATLAS is based around its origin from outside our solar system, and it. highly anomalous behaviour which has led some, including Harvard Astrophysicist Avi Loeb to speculate that it could potentially be NHI* (non human intelligence).

[*Not to be confused with NIH (non intelligent humans) which is a whole other thing we have to worry about.]

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3IATLAS ‘anti-solar’ tail as photographed by Gemini North observatory

Aside from the ‘headlights not tail’, and unusual mineral composition, which you will already be familiar with, as it gets closer telescopes have been able to observe some new characteristics and behaviour which take us further down the road of ‘It’s NOT a Comet!’

Which I think we can all agree, is thrilling,

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