#Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System

UH telescope detects solar system’s third known interstellar visitor

The newly identified object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, is suspected to be a comet and should show increasing activity as it gets closer to the sun, but it will never get warm enough to be seen by the naked eye. And it poses no risk of hitting Earth.

Mauna Loa Astronomy Team Successfully Locates Incoming Asteroid

The 4-meter diameter asteroid, which is about the size of a car, was observed four times in a span of 30 minutes by the UH ATLAS facility on Mauna Loa.