Let's Talk About the 3rd Interstellar Comet, Here's What We Know So Far (3I/Atlas)
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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about everything we know about 3I/Atlas the 3rd interstellar comet found in the solar system
Links:
https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/planetary-defense/2025/07/02/nasa-discovers-interstellar-comet-moving-through-solar-system/
https://minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K25/K25N12.html
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0:00 3I/Atlas interstellar comet
1:20 Previous two comets
2:30 How was this found?
3:50 Origins and what was seen in the coma
4:50 Unusual properties and size
5:30 Orbit and Mars
6:20 Why we didn't see it before
7:00 What will happen next
7:30 Why this matters
8:50 Can we catch it?
9:30 Future observations 10:30 Conclusions
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Atlantis by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Darryl Z. Seligman et al. - https://arxiv.org/html/2507.02757v1
ATLAS/University of Hawaii/NASA
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