Blog #59 The Comet from Outside our Solar System
On July 1, 2024, 3I/ATLAS was discovered by the NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Lat Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, and reported to the Minor Planet Center on July 1, 2025. This caused quite a stir in the scientific community. One of the reasons was it was only the third interstellar object humans