A rock the size of 1,400 feet, or 3.5 miles, going 130,000 mph in empty space is heading towards our solar system.
In the summer of 2025, July 2025, to be specific, astronomers and scientists discovered an interesting interstellar object heading our way. In the history of us studying interstellar objects, only about 2 have passed our way: Oumamaua and Borisov.
Oumuamaua was an asteroid with a weird, long shape. The weirdest part was that it was discovered after it passed. A lot of people thought it was another worldly life, many people didn’t even know anything. Scientists said the reason they couldn’t locate it before it passed was because it was traveling way too fast for telescopes to see it and track it in time. The reason Oumuamaua was accelerated was because the surface was icy and it was gassing out hydrogen speeding it up. On October 14, 2017, Oumuamaua passed Earth by approximately 15 million miles, and it was discovered on October 19, 2017.
On August 30, 2019 another interstellar object was discovered by Gennady Borisov, and the Object was named Borisov after him; he used a self-designed 0.65 meter telescope at his observatory in Crimea. From what we know, Borisov was slower than Oumuamaua, but it was still fast, going 110,00 miles per hour. On December 8, Borisov passed its closest point to the sun, and, on December 28, 2019, Borisov passed Earth, it was about 185 million miles away.
In June of 2025, 31 atlas entered our solar system, going about 130,000 miles, passing Mars by 18 million miles on October 4, 2025, and going around the sun on October 29, 2025. 31 atlas isn’t going to hit Earth, but, still, a lot of people are worried about being another life. When the media is hearing ‘’interstellar,’’ they start to think of another life or something that could end the human race. Astronomers had said it wouldn’t hit earth, and the closest it’s going to get is 170 million miles out. 31 atlas is going to pass Earth on December 19 2025. Oumuamua was 1,300 feet, 31 atlas is about 1,400 feet and Borisov was 3,200 feet. Borisov was the biggest we had come into our solar system, and if something like that hit us, it would kill most half of America.
