The object known as 3I/Atlas is travelling towards Earth at 130,000mph was detected on 1 July, it has left millions of people globally who are worried after theories have emerged it could be an "alien mothership." Experts from the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) first detected the object. 3I/Atlas trajectory is causing a stir amongst scientists, astronomers, space agencies and NASA who are on alert.
I'm sending you a million articles with both Buzz Aldrin and the other one, Kardashian tells Paulson, before reading an article about Buzz Aldrin, the astronaut who became the second person, after Neil Armstrong, to walk on the moon. Kardashian says the article included a quote from Aldrin answering a question on the scariest moment of the expedition: There was no scary moment because it didn't happen. It could've been scary, but it wasn't because it didn't happen.
It's fascinated scientists ever since it was first observed in early July. Now, NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has seemingly managed to snap images of the errant visitor as it made its flyby of the Red Planet. Two pictures, shared by the space agency over the weekend after being captured by Perseverance's Right Navigation camera (Navcam), show a singular streak contrasted against the emptiness of space around it.
At the time, astronomer Jerry Ehman spotted the highly unusual outburst in printed out records, annotating the major radio band fluctuation with the word "Wow!" in red pen, thereby giving it a memorable nickname: the "Wow! Signal." The incident has remained a mystery for decades, never spotted again in over 48 years, leaving plenty of questions in its wake. Where did it come from, and why did it only last for 72 seconds?
To back up his far-fetched theory, Loeb has pointed out that 3I/ATLAS' highly unusual trajectory brings it suspiciously close to Jupiter, Mars, and Venus. In a new blog post, the astronomer pointed out that the object will come within just 1.67 million miles of Mars' path around the Sun, in what he characterized as a "remarkable fine-tuning" of the object's path.
"There were claims of a tail, but since 3I/ATLAS is accelerating and its current size is not much larger than the angular resolution of Earth-based telescopes, it is not easy to avoid fictitious elongation of the image as a result of the object's motion."