• ?The ?alien comet? is on the way: 3I/ATLAS to make rare Earth pass?

    From Lynn McGuire@3:633/10 to All on Fri Dec 12 16:28:39 2025
    ?The ?alien comet? is on the way: 3I/ATLAS to make rare Earth pass?

    https://www.chron.com/news/space/article/interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-earth-21239099.php

    ?Scientists are preparing for their best look at it yet.?

    ?Comet 3I/ATLAS, only the third known object from interstellar space to
    pass through our solar system, is about to make its closest approach to
    Earth. On Friday, Dec. 19, it will come within about 170 million miles
    of the planet while moving on the far side of the Sun. The alignment
    should give Earth and space-based telescopes one of their best
    opportunities to study it, and NASA says it poses no threat.?

    ?Astronomers have followed 3I/ATLAS since its discovery on July 1.
    Hubble photographed it on July 21 from 277 million miles away, revealing
    a teardrop-shaped cloud of dust wrapped around its icy core. The comet
    stayed visible through September before slipping too close to the Sun to
    be observed.?

    The space ship is coming by for a look at us. I hope their telescopes
    are better than ours.

    Lynn


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  • From Thomas Koenig@3:633/10 to All on Sat Dec 13 09:42:56 2025
    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> schrieb:

    The space ship is coming by for a look at us. I hope their telescopes
    are better than ours.

    They have a really poor design - making your main telescope out
    of dry ice and water will give you crappy quality once you get
    close to a star, and the Nickel mirror surface vaporates.

    Must have been the 0.000000000000000000000166 IQ alien engineering
    crowd who built this.

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