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Asteroid warning network runs a comet-tracking campaign on 3I/ATLAS

When: 27 Nov 2025
Sources: 2 public sources

Gemini telescope image of 3I/ATLAS from late 2025, when IAWN ran its observing campaign International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/B. Bolin, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The International Asteroid Warning Network opened an observing campaign on 3I/ATLAS to practise measuring precise positions of fuzzy comets, running to Jan. 27, 2026. Some outlets cast it as a secret planetary-defense drill; the network described it as a routine astrometry exercise.

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Official3I/ATLAS: Comet Astrometry Campaign (opens in a new tab)International Asteroid Warning Network
PressWarning Network's Campaign to Target 3I/ATLAS Sparks Theories About Secret Planetary Defense Effort (opens in a new tab)The Debrief / 2025-10-23

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