Nobody is too bothered about the occasional passing comet nowadays since there's so much more crucial and more concerning stuff happening right here on planet earth currently.
Nevertheless, one astronomer and scientist is shedding light on the fact that the approaching comet ATLAS is different from anything we've ever seen before. Not only is it 20km wide, but it's not displaying any of the normal characteristics of a comet.
Just to clarify this object ATLAS is twice the size of the comet that allegedly wiped out the dinosaurs when it struck earth millennia ago.
That said, there's no alarm about it hitting earth, so don't worry about that. However, it's only the third such deep space object that we have ever detected entering our solar system. And it's considerably bigger than what ate used to.
Add to that the fact that it's trajectory appears to be more than random. Some massive coincidence seems to be present in its flight path which passes right by Mars and Jupiter one after the other, a fact which looks like precision aiming.
It's near to us on earth around October and November which is about 60 days from now. Before that it passes near our sun and during that time becomes invisible to observation from earth die to the glare from the sun.
Watch the video of the chief scientist Loeb presenting his case. He theorized that based on its highly anomalous characteristics, unlike anything we've seen and thus truly mysterious, this object has a 40% chance of being a mechanical object.
That would imply that some superior alien species sent this 20km wide object, like a ship, to observe the planets in our solar system, based on its accurate trajectory allowing it to pass so closely by our neighboring planets, one by one.
I have no idea, and we can only speculate along with Prof Loeb about this large space object approaching us. But I can say that it looks suspicious and demands further observation and investigation. If it's really close in just 60 days from now, we don't have much time for whatever it might bring.
If nothing else, it is fascinating and I'll keep an eye on this story as it develops.