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MEGATHREAD: NASA Press Conference About New Images Of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
LIVESTREAM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A55SUq2eDXg
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>NASA will host a live event at 3 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Nov. 19, to share imagery of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS collected by a number of the agency’s missions. The event will take place at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
>Briefing participants include: NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya; Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate; Shawn Domagal-Goldman, acting director, Astrophysics Division; Tom Statler, lead scientist for solar system small bodies
Edit - they mention a few things right off the bat (that have been obvious for a while):
**It is a comet.**
**It is NOT a danger to Earth**
Edit 2 -
Tom Statler: **"I want to emphasize that you do NOT get these views unless you have spacecraft farther from the sun than the comet is, so that you can see it backlit. We cannot get this view from the vantage point of the Earth"**
Edit 3 -
**Tom Statler: "There is circumstantial evidence - not confirmed - given how fast it has come into our solar system, that it came from some very old population of stars from a very old solar system - possibly a solar system older than our own!"**
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**ALL THE NEW IMAGES RELEASED:** https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/3i-atlas/comet-3i-atlas-image-gallery/
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Nicky: **"We invite everybody to look at this comet with us. We have had a open data policy at NASA for a long time, we try to make sure the data is usable as much as possible and everyone is open to use/study the data we have about the comet."**
#space
LIVESTREAM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A55SUq2eDXg
Stream begins in around 10 mins from the time of this post.
>NASA will host a live event at 3 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Nov. 19, to share imagery of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS collected by a number of the agency’s missions. The event will take place at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
>Briefing participants include: NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya; Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate; Shawn Domagal-Goldman, acting director, Astrophysics Division; Tom Statler, lead scientist for solar system small bodies
Edit - they mention a few things right off the bat (that have been obvious for a while):
**It is a comet.**
**It is NOT a danger to Earth**
Edit 2 -
Tom Statler: **"I want to emphasize that you do NOT get these views unless you have spacecraft farther from the sun than the comet is, so that you can see it backlit. We cannot get this view from the vantage point of the Earth"**
Edit 3 -
**Tom Statler: "There is circumstantial evidence - not confirmed - given how fast it has come into our solar system, that it came from some very old population of stars from a very old solar system - possibly a solar system older than our own!"**
Edit 4 -
**ALL THE NEW IMAGES RELEASED:** https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/3i-atlas/comet-3i-atlas-image-gallery/
Edit 5 -
Nicky: **"We invite everybody to look at this comet with us. We have had a open data policy at NASA for a long time, we try to make sure the data is usable as much as possible and everyone is open to use/study the data we have about the comet."**
#space
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