A cosmic wanderer, Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas or more commonly known as Comet A3
has traced its elliptical path through the solar system, a journey spanning 80,000 years.
A silent observer, alone in the darkness Comet A3 has borne witness to Earth's transformation. During its previous passage, Neanderthals roamed the planet, their fires flickering against the night. Ice sheets gripped the northern hemisphere, whilst Mammoths trod the frozen plains.
Today, the comet observes a vibrant, warmer world, teeming with a new species of humans. Cities lights sparkling like the constellation of stars above, their lights a stark contrast to the primeval darkness the comet once remembered.
City lights now fading as our cosmic time traveller departs to the awaiting darkness, time to reflect on a two hundred-billion-mile journey, millennia will pass as will the indelible mark of humanity upon our fragile home.
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