Atlas is the name of the lab that found it.

You seem to have some knowledge in this area.
Why don't you provide some insight instead of hostility?
Are there 3 comets currently in our solar system?
And a meteor shower?
Can any be seen with binoculars or the nakedness eye?
Please tell us Ole great one.

As so often happens here the sky closed out soon after sunset and then rained most of the night.

I'll try again tonight with my Skymaster binos.

:rolleyes:

Earth orbits around the sun at a speed of 67,100 miles per hour (30 kilometers per second).

As well as moving around the Sun, the Sun and Earth are orbiting around the dense center of our galaxy at some 447,000 miles per hour (200 km/s)

Just as the Earth rotates around the Sun and our Sun rotates the galactic center – which from our point of view is located about 2,500 light years away – in an elliptical path. A revolution ends approximately every 225 million years. This is known as a galactic year.

It is predicted that since the Sun and Earth were born, 20 galactic years have passed, which means that we completed 20 successful revolutions orbiting the galactic center.

So I learned something last week.
And please correct me if I'm wrong...
All the planets in our solar system rotate around the sun in virtually the same plane, and pretty close to the suns equator.
I never knew that!
And 3i Atlas came in on almost this same plane.
That's kinda weird, right?

Anybody look up last night?

Using the Sun's equator as a reference plane, the orbital inclination of each planet is:

Planet Inclination relative to Sun's equator
Earth 7.155°
Mercury 3.38°
Venus 3.86°
Mars 5.65°
Jupiter 6.09°
Saturn 5.51°
Uranus 6.48°
Neptune 6.43°
Pluto. 11.88°

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that seems to be a pretty tight range. Certainly not random. Is it confirmed that this comet is traveling in a similar plane? And if so, wouldn't it more likely be a simple magnetic phenomenon rather than some super-genius alien programmed trajectory?

I don’t think it’s a super genius device. If anything, it’s aliens playing a game of space curling.

Planets orbit on a similar plane because they formed from the same flat, rotating disk of gas and dust that surrounded the early Sun. As the cloud collapsed under gravity, its rotation sped up, causing it to flatten into a disk (like a spinning pizza dough), and planets accreted from the material within this disk, resulting in them all sharing a similar orbital plane. This is supported by observations of similar disks around other young stars.
- Google

One REALLY scary thing for me, besides possible aliens!) is the trajectory.
This thing comes zipping through our solar system narrowly missing (cosmic scale) pretty much every planet in our solar system.
IMO comparative to hitting a pool cue ball on a broken rack, and missing every ball.
And we had weeks notice!
Seriously?

Just don't look up. Everything will be fine.

That was a reference to the movie.

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Don't watch Melancholia if you believe in this.

(Especially if you don't want to see Kirsten Dunst in a state of undress)

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By several unofficial reports, this thing is a LOT bigger than initially reported.
Official news is crickets.
Kinda odd nobody is talking about this.
Right?

So, anyone going to refute Randall Carlson’s argument regarding the possibility of the comet breaking apart from planetary gravitational forces as it passes through our system?

Except that there’s many millions of miles between tiny planets and moons. My guess is the odds of hitting one is rather small.

I agree, very small.
Now look how close this thing got to mars.
And how close it gets to Jupiter? on its way our.
A little more or less push or pull in its kabillion year life, and it takes out a planet or more in our solar system.
Crazy, ehh?
Just like that.

Should we have a poll?
Comet
Reptilians
Annunaki
Galactic Federation
Blue Beam
Nibiru
Other

:D

Wednesday might offer some clues.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BRU2Ss1Mx/

Good video hitting some highlights:

https://youtu.be/xYFz_4DvAlk?si=LOd1HlKKb62Qra68

I wish that I was a famous enough physicist that I too could have some nitwit AI generate my face for facebook and youtube. The best ones are where the mouth they put on Dr Kaku doesn't even come close to the sounds that they have artificially created.