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SciNews has pulled together some details about 3I/Atlas in video form:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt-BXrI7wGI
Here's a short clip of the Comet whizzing through our Solar System:
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Namarie! 💛
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The mysterious Oumuamua was "officially" our first interstellar visitor with Borisov being the second. Initial estimates place the size of this Comet 3I/Atlas at about 20km (!) and travelling at a high speed of 68 km/second. As I was reading some of the reports of this new Comet, I can't believe that it's been 8 years since Oumuamua's visit (2017) ~ it seems like just a couple of years ago.
The first two interstellar Comets measured only 0.5 and 1km respectively (reports vary), so the mind boggles with this one being 20km! Perihelion is at end-October, when it comes close to Mars:
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I still can't understand how it is that Oumuamua was (officially) our first interstellar visitor. Were there others that we haven't been told about? Or is it because the technology wasn't able to differentiate local Comets from interstellar ones?
If there weren't any interstellar visitors in all the years prior to 2017, why are we now getting three in 8 years? (Again, I highlight the size of this one....20km.)
And of course, my usual question when it comes to Comets ~ especially interstellar ones ~ what is the payload?
For more details, here are some links:
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=03&month=07&year=2025
https://earthsky.org/space/new-interstellar-object-candidate-heading-toward-the-sun-a11pl3z/
As a side note ~ and I kid you not ~ I just re-watched an episode of Strange New Worlds yesterday (prepping for Season 3 in a couple of weeks) titled "Children of the Comet". Then I read about 3I/Atlas earlier today....
Namarie! 💗
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It's all happening! October is looking like a very "celestial" month indeed.
This one hasn't been named yet as it was just discovered on 27 September 2024. We should be getting some interesting footage of this Sungrazer when it orbits around our Sun.
It is expected to be so bright that we could even see it in daylight! There's more information about this Sungrazer at Universe Magazine:
https://universemagazine.com/en/the-second-october-comet/
Whenever a comet visits our skies, I often wonder what payload they carry....
Namarie! 💛
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At the same time, also from LiveScience:
On Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth captured a new "minimoon" called 2024 PT5. The bus-size asteroid is expected to orbit our planet for 57 days, but is too small to be visible to amateur skywatchers.
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| Ordnance Survey |
So, apart from the crowded happenings earlier in November, we also had two other events going on, the first of which is the first-in-history (at least in publicly-known history) where true North, magnetic North and grid North aligned together at a single point in Great Britain. Here for more details.
This is especially interesting and brings up so many questions, and I have none of the answers. Seeing as Earth Mum is in the gradual process of righting her tilted axis, this alignment makes it all the more intriguing and is no doubt having an even more intense effect on the weakening magnetosphere, which is not organic to our Planet.
And then we have these three comets in just 4 days! When I was reading about, it just seemed so obvious that something Cosmic was unfolding according to some plan. Again, I know nothing of this plan 😄 but I'm quite sure that it's integral to the Ascension phase we are in.
Solar Observer has an image of the latest one as it makes its way Sun-ward:
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I don't have an image of the 2nd comet, but here's one of the 3rd comet:
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