FROM DAILY MAIL:
Starting on November 27, a global team of scientists with the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) will kick off a two–month campaign to track the comet as it nears our planet.
While 3I/ATLAS was only discovered in July 2025, the UN explained that this ‘comet campaign’ has long been planned.
The UN published information about the comet in its website.
“While it poses no threat, comet 3I/ATLAS presents a great opportunity for the IAWN community to perform an observing exercise due to its prolonged observability from Earth and high interest to the scientific community,” the UN explained.
“This 3I/ATLAS campaign is the 8th IAWN observing exercise since 2017 – IAWN holds these exercises roughly once a year,” it added.
‘IAWN had been planning to do a Fall 2025 comet campaign since 2024 to exercise capabilities for measuring the position of comets, which pose additional astrometric challenges as they appear as fuzzy extended objects compared to point–like asteroids in a telescope’s field of view,’ it added.
The news comes shortly after NASA put claims that the object could be an alien spacecraft to bed once and for all.
‘We want very much to find signs of life in the universe… but 3I/ATLAS is a comet,’ said Amit Kshatriya, a senior NASA official, at a press conference.
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