Joel 2:30-32
And I will shew wonders
in the heavens
and in the earth,
blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood,
before the great and terrible
day of the Lord come.
32 And it shall come to pass,
that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord
shall be delivered:
for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance,
as the Lord hath said,
and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call.
See
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
If you want some more background.
another puzzling interstellar object
Phys.org 07/06/25
"Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system caught a glimpse of a large, bright object zipping through the solar system late on July 1, 2025."
"The object's potentially interstellar origins
(Occurring or situated between stars.
"Intergalactic" would be between galaxies.)
excited scientists across the globe, and the next morning, the European Space Agency confirmed that this object, first named A11pl3Z and then designated 3I/ATLAS, is the third ever found from outside our solar system."
"What makes 3I/ATLAS different from its predecessors?
We have discovered two interstellar objects so far, 'Oumuamua and Comet 2I/Borisov. 'Oumuamua had no dust tail and a significant nongravitational acceleration, which led to a wide variety of hypotheses regarding its origin. 2I/Borisov was very clearly a comet, though it has a somewhat unique composition compared to comets in our solar system."
"This object is shockingly bright, and it's very far away from the Earth. It is significantly bigger than both of the interstellar objects we've seen (Oumuamua and Comet 2I/Borisov.)—it is orders of magnitude larger than 'Oumuamua."
"How can astronomers tell if something is an interstellar object?
The eccentricity of the object's orbit is how you know that it's interstellar. The eccentricity refers to how noncircular an orbit is. So an eccentricity of zero is a pure circle, and as the eccentricity increases, it becomes what's known as an ellipse—a stretched out circle."
"And then once you get past an eccentricity of one, you go from an ellipse to a hyperbolic orbit, and that is unbound.
(The blue line would be an example of an Hyperbolic Orbit)
"So while an elliptical orbit is stretched out, it still orbits and comes back around. An object with a hyperbolic orbit comes through and it leaves, but it never comes back. That type of orbit tells you that it didn't come from this solar system."
Astronomers spot an interstellar object
zipping through our solar system
CNN 07/03/25
"Believed to be a comet, the object is only the third celestial body from beyond our solar system ever to be observed in our corner of the universe.'
“Objects bound to the sun — denizens of our solar system — take paths around it that return to the same point,” Kareta wrote in an email. “The Earth’s orbit is mostly circular, Pluto’s orbit is a stretched oval, and many comets are very highly ‘eccentric’ — their orbits are very long and narrow ellipses. This object’s path through the solar system is very nearly a straight line.”
"Tracking the object’s orbit also reveals the path it has taken to reach our solar system, said Dr. Paul Chodas, director of NASA’s Center of Near-Earth Object Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California."
“When we extrapolate its motion backwards in time we see that it clearly originated from outside our Solar System,” Chodas wrote in an email. “It must have originated from another Solar System
(Not the Oort cloud?
Interesting.)
and probably has been travelling through interstellar space for millions of years until it happened to encounter our Solar System.”
as it passes through the solar system. NASA/JPL-Caltech
Notice the proximity to Mars.
I'll get to it here in a bit
just thought it was interesting
and worth noting.
Everybody is saying it wont hit Earth,
but what if it gets close enough to Mars
to affect its orbit?
Then what?
NOT GOOD.
Thats what.
More in a bit.)
"Little is known so far about comet 3I/ATLAS.
Astronomers estimate its diameter
to be 12 miles (20 kilometers),
with significant uncertainty
due to the object’s brightness, Masi said."
"However, the comet
seems to be the brightest and fastest
of the three interstellar objects discovered so far, Kareta noted."
"3I/ATLAS is approaching our solar system from the Milky Way’s galactic center, a different direction than the previous objects, Chodas said."
“We don’t know where (3I/ATLAS) came from yet, but as our understanding of the object’s orbit (increases) we might be able to make some good guesses in a few months.”
"The comet’s path
Astronomers said that the comet poses no threat to Earth and will remain at least 150 million miles (240 million kilometers) from our planet. The comet is currently about 416 million miles (670 million kilometers) away from the sun and will make its closest approach to our star around October 30 at a distance of 130 million miles (210 million kilometers), according to NASA."
"The comet will also whip by Mars on
October 2 at 18 million miles
(30 million kilometers)
from the red planet.
This is a relatively close pass,
astronomically speaking.
For reference, Earth is about 93 million miles
(150 million kilometers) from the sun.
So this thing?
Way larger than the others
Is gonna pass by Mars
5x closer to it
than the earth is to the Sun?
"This is a relatively close pass,
astronomically speaking."
More on that with Pt2.
Coming up.
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