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Astronomers discover 3I/ATLAS – Third interstellar object to visit Solar System

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306 points gammarator | 1 comments | 03 Jul 25 03:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.328s | source

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ordu ◴[03 Jul 25 05:27 UTC] No.44451907[source]▶
Judging by how humanity didn't see any of those for millennia and now three in just several years, I can propose two hypotheses:

1. Astronomers became good enough to notice them 2. These rocks are first in an incoming flood of such objects, the Universe decided to destroy humanity.

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1. eb0la ◴[03 Jul 25 07:16 UTC] No.44452479[source]▶
I believe #1 is true; but not #2. It's just that those rocks are more common than we thought. And we thought they were uncommon because we weren't able to spot them... yet.