Happenings this Week

In the midst of this I came across one of those attention-grabbing videos about 3I/ATLAS—which I had totally forgotten about. I remember Oumuamua as if it had never left the solar system. That weird, breadstick-shaped monolith with its surprising acceleration (which I still desperately hope/believe to be an alien probe), named in Hawaiian: “a messenger from afar arriving first.”

But 2I/Borisov… huh. I must have missed that one? And now 3I/ATLAS…oops.

So, in the spirit of Oumuamua, I’m launching an unofficial naming contest to rebrand this current interstellar visitor so that it really leaves an impression.

Here are my own entries so far:

InnkomumaðrMjólkurvegar (Old Norse for “the one who has come in along the milk-road”)
Al-Qādimminaṭ-Ṭawqi‘āl-Majarrah (Arabic for “the ancient one from the curve of the galaxy”)
Zhōngxīnquēxíngguānguǎnláng (Mandarin-ish for “radiant wolf from the galactic center”)
Antaryātrikavigrahasūcana (Sanskrit-Hindi for “a sign in form from the inner journeyer”)
Xhālxinārāhvansēltāmē (Elvish for “he who drifts beyond known winds”)
If you’d like to submit your own or vote for a favorite, email the secretary inbox with your pick!

And now, here’s what’s Happening this week:

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