2026-04-03 00:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-04-02)
INTERSTELLAR VISITOR: 3I/ATLAS
- Barycentric speed: 60.63 km/s (-0.02 km/s)
- Crossing the Saturn's orbit in: 98 days
🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 843,612,075.63 km (+7,783,902.69 km)
- Distance (AU): 5.64 (+0.05)
- Light travel time: 46 min 54.07 s (+25.97 s)
RE: https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-c8c98246-5138cded57c895d1
Some cool new pictures and interesting preliminary findings about 3I/Atlas from the JUICE flyby last November.
The article also features my processing of the NavCam image sequence :)
Just how insanely precise was the #3iAtlas correction engine burn?
The margin is absurdly tight.
Jupiter's Hill radius on that date is 53.502 million km. The margin is 0.06 million km, that's one part in 1,000 relative to the Hill radius, and one part in 26,000 relative to Jupiter's full orbital diameter.
That's 57,000 km of margin on a 53.5 million km target, after travelling from interstellar space.
The non-gravitational acceleration measured at perihelion is what brought the trajectory to that value. Without it, 3I would have missed the Hill sphere entirely.
So the perihelion burn didn't just slow the object down.
💥It course-corrected with enough precision to thread a 0.1% margin on Jupiter's gravitational capture boundary💥
After a journey of billions of years across interstellar space.
That's not a snowball melting unevenly.
#space #astronomy " #comet " #aliens #techsignature
2026-04-02 00:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-04-01)
INTERSTELLAR VISITOR: 3I/ATLAS
- Barycentric speed: 60.64 km/s (-0.02 km/s)
- Crossing the Saturn's orbit in: 99 days
🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 835,828,172.93 km (+7,785,948.92 km)
- Distance (AU): 5.59 (+0.05)
- Light travel time: 46 min 28.11 s (+25.97 s)
Data shows that #3iAtlas is definitely not a comet, it does not behave like a comet ever has, and the papers reporting the data have given up on trying to match the data into existing comet models.
Every #comet ever observed has its fast outgassing on the sunlit side, pointing away from the Sun. That's thermally mandatory, the hot side produces faster gas, and the gas moves away from the heat source. Decades of data across dozens of comets all show the same pattern. The fast exhaust is always anti-sunward.
3I has it reversed. The fast exhaust is sunward. That directly contradicts thermal sublimation physics.
💥There's no natural heating model that produces faster gas toward the thing heating you💥
The exhaust velocity is also wrong. At 3I's solar distance, every comet on record produces gas at 0.7–0.8 km/s. 3I is at 0.37. Half speed. The CO₂ mass explanation accounts for the number, but no comet has ever shown a CO₂-dominated exhaust profile sustained through perihelion like this. Comets that are CO₂-rich still show water taking over as they get close to the Sun because water ice sublimates aggressively at those temperatures.
The sulfur depletion is also unprecedented. Every comet carries hydrogen sulfide.
💥Every single one💥
3I has none detectable, below the floor of any known cometary measurement.
And the water production at 900% of surface capacity with a locked output temperature that doesn't respond to solar heating: no comet does that either.
Nothing about this object's perihelion behaviour is consistent with any comet ever observed.
World's space agencies have all the data consistent with an #alien #techsignature #interstellar vessel.
#space #solarsystem #visitors #astronomy
THE REFINED FUEL: They Clocked the Exhaust of 3I/ATLAS at Closest Approach. Half Speed. Wrong Direction. And the Sulfur Is Gone.
A team in Spain just ran the most comprehensive chemical survey of the interstellar object ever attempted at closest approach to the Sun. What they found describes an engine, not a comet.
A team in Spain just ran the most comprehensive chemical survey of the interstellar object ever attempted at closest approach to the Sun. What they found describes an engine, not a comet.
2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-03-31)
INTERSTELLAR VISITOR: 3I/ATLAS
- Barycentric speed: 60.66 km/s (-0.02 km/s)
- Crossing the Saturn's orbit in: 100 days
🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 828,042,224.01 km (+7,787,215.90 km)
- Distance (AU): 5.54 (+0.05)
- Light travel time: 46 min 2.14 s (+25.98 s)
2026-03-31 00:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-03-30)
INTERSTELLAR VISITOR: 3I/ATLAS
- Barycentric speed: 60.68 km/s (-0.02 km/s)
- Crossing the Saturn's orbit in: 101 days
🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 820,255,008.11 km (+7,787,692.07 km)
- Distance (AU): 5.48 (+0.05)
- Light travel time: 45 min 36.16 s (+25.98 s)
2026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-03-29)
INTERSTELLAR VISITOR: 3I/ATLAS
- Barycentric speed: 60.69 km/s (-0.02 km/s)
- Crossing the Saturn's orbit in: 102 days
🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 812,467,316.04 km (+7,787,362.47 km)
- Distance (AU): 5.43 (+0.05)
- Light travel time: 45 min 10.18 s (+25.98 s)
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