It’s a practice run for armageddon.
With 3I/ATLAS just days away from making its closest approach to Earth, agencies around the globe are conducting the largest and most extensive planetary defense drill — with the goal of protecting ourselves against future threats from beyond.
“This is an excellent opportunity for observers around the world to practice tracking where a comet is in the sky, should a hazardous comet to Earth ever be found,” NASA representatives told the Post. They cited the fact that we’ve been able to monitor the cosmic interloper for such a long time.
The trial run, which was launched on November 27 and runs through January 2026, was launched by the International Asteroid Warning Network, a worldwide coalition of space experts, including NASA, the European Space Agency and more than 23 different nations.
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