20 August 2021
"Weird" comet ATLAS may be a remnant of an ancient visitor
... (C/2019 Y4). Discovered by its namesake in December 2019, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), a robotic astronomical survey system based in Hawaii, Comet ATLAS was believed to be one of the brightest comets to sweep past Earth...
15 May 2020
An unexpected meeting could see Solar Orbiter study Comet ATLAS
... ion and dust tail end of May/beginning of June. Comet ATLAS was discovered on 28 December, 2019, by the system that gives it its name; the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) - a robotic astronomical survey stationed atop Mauna Loa...
04 February 2022
NASA’s real-life “Don’t Look Up” programme
The NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) - a state-of-the-art asteroid detection system operated by the University of Hawaiʻi (UH) Institute for Astronomy (IfA) for the agency’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office (...
