00:00A mysterious visitor is racing through our solar system,
00:03and it's not from around here.
00:05Meet 3i slash Atlas,
00:07the third-ever object we've spotted from another star system.
00:10Discovered by NASA on July 1,
00:13it's moving at a staggering 37 miles per second
00:16and will make its closest approach to the sun this October
00:19before vanishing forever.
00:21Now, scientists want to do the unthinkable,
00:23intercept it with a spacecraft.
00:25But there's a big problem.
00:26It's too fast, and Earth-based launches can't catch up.
00:30So, researchers are proposing a bold Plan B.
00:33Redirect existing spacecraft like NASA's Juno,
00:36currently orbiting Jupiter,
00:38or Mars orbiters nearing retirement.
00:40If they succeed, we could get a once-in-a-lifetime glimpse
00:43into another star system's secrets.
00:45Some even believe this could answer the biggest question of all.
00:48Is it alien?
00:50Harvard's professor Avi Loeb says its strange path and rarity
00:53might not be a coincidence.
00:55But time is running out.
00:57Whether comet or something far more mysterious,
01:003i slash Atlas could change what we know about life, space,
01:04and our place in the universe.
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01:08Let's see.
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01:10They don't burn too much.
01:11I can do it from today to sunrise.
01:13I've got that succinct.
01:14The entire mouse is I don't use the Duluth Dealer.
01:16A classic.
01:17They're going to tighten it right now.
01:18And it's easing up.
01:19Again, everybody is darlin't out.
01:20Which are doing that.
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01:23These are merging.
01:24I guess there's some frankly my way.
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