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🚨NASA Quietly Activates Planetary Defense Network for 3I/ATLAS Without Saying a Word Buried in tonight’s official MPEC (2025-U142) the Minor Planet Center’s internal bulletin is an editorial notice that says it all: “Announcement of IAWN Comet Astrometry Campaign Nov. 27, 2025 – Jan. 27, 2026.” “The campaign will target comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1).” Be clear that this is not a Reddit rumor, 4chan leak, this is straight from the IAU, hosted on Harvard’s Minor Planet Center, issued on behalf of NASA’s International Asteroid Warning Network, the same group that coordinates global tracking in planetary-defense scenarios. So this is whats happening, for the first time in history, an interstellar object namely 3I/ATLAS has been formally enrolled in a planetary defense–level observation campaign. They’re calling it “a test of improved astrometry methods.” In other words the object isn’t behaving like it should. The bulletin admits it: “Cometary bodies are extended… features that can systematically pull their centroid measurements off their central brightness peak.” Meaning that the light and the mass don’t line up. Exactly the issue astronomers have been speaking about for months. 3I/ATLAS’s photometric center is offset from its orbital predictions. Here’s the timeline they quietly outlined: Workshop Nov 10 Kickoff meeting – Nov 25 Global observing window – Nov 27 to Jan 27 Close out telecon : Feb 3 That window covers perihelion through Earth’s near pass when 3I/ATLAS will be closest, brightest, and most unstable. So, after months of near total silence, NASA, ESA, and the IAU just activated the planetary defense network, but they did it under the cover of an “astrometry exercise.” No headlines or press kit. Just a quiet admission that the world’s largest observatories will now point at one object... 3I/ATLAS. Let’s be clear about this right now, this isn’t normal. The IAWN doesn’t organize global campaigns for routine comets. They test coordination on bodies that matter, potential hazards, anomalies, or high-interest targets. And you don’t need to “improve astrometry” unless your target refuses to follow standard math. So yes they finally broke silence, but instead of a briefing, we got a bulletin, and instead of transparency, we got a PDF at 21:08 UT. They can call it a “training exercise” all they want but when every telescope from Mauna Kea to Chile is being synced on one object, that’s not a drill. Source: https://t.co/khAPoWTBD7 #3IATLAS #MPEC #IAWN #NASA #Disclosure #PlanetaryDefense #InterstellarObject #SkywatchSignal