[BLOG] Some Saturday links

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• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes the import of comet A/2017U1, a potential visitor from another planetary system, while Centauri Dreams also takes a look.
  
• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly celebrates Montréal's Atwater Market, with photos.


• Bruce Dorminey notes one report that Ceres' primordial ocean may have mixed with its surface, to make a world covered in salty mud.


• The Map Room Blog links to an interactive French-language map looking at census data on different neighbourhoods in different cities.


• The New APPS Blog looks at the changing role of the judiciary as enforcing of order in a privatized world.


• The NYR Daily wonders if North Korea's government has firm control over its nuclear weapons, given American issues.


• The Planetary Society Blog notes the expansion of Google Maps to other worlds in our solar system.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer examines the situation facing Catalonia, and Spain, after the UDI.


• Roads and Kingdoms takes a photographic look at Little Mogadishu, a Somali neighbourhood in Kampala, Uganda.


• Rocky Planet notes the ongoing risk of a major volcanic eruption at Tinakula, in the Solomon Islands.


• Understanding Society takes a look at the role and functioning of overlapping social identities.