{"id":1256005,"date":"2025-07-04T12:36:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T09:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/an-interstellar-comet-is-approaching-our-planet-is-there-a-threat-to-humanity\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T12:36:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T09:36:32","slug":"an-interstellar-comet-is-approaching-our-planet-is-there-a-threat-to-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/an-interstellar-comet-is-approaching-our-planet-is-there-a-threat-to-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"An interstellar comet is approaching our planet: is there a threat to humanity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scientists recently discovered a strange space object that entered our solar system from distant interstellar spaces. The observations were made using the ATLAS telescope in Chile, a system that specializes in searching for potentially hazardous asteroids.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/space\/nasa-interstellar-object-detected-solar-system\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is reported by<\/a> the publication Interesting Engineering.<\/p>\n<p> This mysterious object turned out to be a comet of interstellar origin and was designated 3I\/ATLAS. The discovery was made on July 1, when the comet was at a considerable distance &#8211; approximately 670 million kilometers from Earth.<\/p>\n<p> This is the third such object officially recorded within our system. NASA scientists assure that 3I\/ATLAS does not pose a threat to the planet &#8211; it will pass quite far, at least 1.6 astronomical units, or about 240 million kilometers. There is an assumption that its trajectory may pass near the orbit of Mars.<\/p>\n<p> According to astronomers&#8217; forecasts, the comet will reach its closest distance to the Sun at the end of October \u2014 around the 30th \u2014 at a distance of approximately 210 million kilometers (1.4 astronomical units).<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists recently discovered a strange space object that entered our solar system from distant interstellar spaces. The observations were made using the ATLAS telescope in Chile, a system that specializes in searching for potentially hazardous asteroids. This is reported by the publication Interesting Engineering. This mysterious object turned out to be a comet of interstellar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1255997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76878],"class_list":["post-1256005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1255997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}