在亞瑟·C·克拉克所著《磐石》系列的《太空奧德賽》中留下人類尋找到外星人的伏筆。在靠近第谷坑附近的一個坑洞發現不自然的強磁場,稱之為第谷磁異常-1(Tycho Magnetic Anomaly 1,TMA-1)[5]。在圍繞木星軌道上的一個稱為TMA-2,2513年在奧杜威峽谷發現的,因為它是原始人類遭遇到的第一個,被追溯命名為TMA-0。
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