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
๐ 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
๐ 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)
Thats a wonderful article.
Full of data.
Being the sceptic that I am, I have examined it thoughrly.
What I am finding is that the article is very careful NOT to say certain things.
Specifically, they've built a rigorous empirical case that the near-Earth meteoroid environment changed in early 2026, then systematically refused to speculate on what changed it. That refusal is the article.
I have reviewed the data and it appears that contrary to my earlier post, Earth HAS NOT passed through the area of the plane of the ecliptic #3iAtlas has passed through.
The article looks for a cause, then totally ignores one of the most profound events in this year, if not decade, the anomalous interstellar visitor.
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2026-03-29 00:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-03-28)
INTERSTELLAR VISITOR: 3I/ATLAS
- Barycentric speed: 60.71 km/s (-0.02 km/s)
- Crossing the Saturn's orbit in: 103 days
๐ Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 804,679,953.57 km (+7,786,208.51 km)
- Distance (AU): 5.38 (+0.05)
- Light travel time: 44 min 44.21 s (+25.97 s)
#SGU #TheSkepticsGuideToTheUniverse
The Skeptics Guide #1081 - Mar 28 2026
Back To #Basics: Confirmation #Bias; News Items: #NASA Announces New #Moon Plans, The Limits of #Cloning, Giant #Insects, Pushing #Exorcism, Update on #3IAtlas; Who's That #Noisy; #Science or Fiction
Webseite der Episode: https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcast/sgu
Mediendatei: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/skepticsguide/skepticast2026-03-28.mp3
Its also worth noting, that when a non-gravitational acceleration was observed in the #3iatlas data, lateral rather than towards the sun as with all #comet
JPL 'fixed' the data by changing it by the maginiture of 6. Thats SIX TIMES. To make this course correction look normal.
They have only done this a couple of days after the anomalous course correction was brought to their attention.
This course correction was actually what pushed the "comet" into Jupiter gravity capture zone. A 1/26000 chance event.
NB. I am not claiming that 3iAtlas "comet" entered Jupiters orbit, its moving too fast for that and there is no data for such a claim.
Its just one more 'anomaly' in a list of 50 anomalies that make this object behave exactly like a comet does not.
#3iAtlas weirdness continues.
The Jupiter Hill Zone (Gravity effect of Jupiter) was entered on March 16. Twelve days ago.
Since then, absolute silence from everybody.
๐ Any post-flyby astrometric report from MPC
๐ Any JPL Horizons orbit solution update discussion
๐ Any Juno observation โ not even a "we tried and failed"
๐ Any Hubble or JWST observation during or after the flyby
๐ Any amateur CCD astrometry showing post-flyby residuals
๐ Any ESA statement
๐ Any JAXA statement
๐ Any COBS lightcurve data points from post-March-16
๐ Any preprint on arxiv discussing the actual flyby geometry vs predictions
There are three explanations for this;
1) No one cares anymore
2) Data exists, but is in the pipeline
3) Something weid happened on Jupiter insertion and no one wants to be the first one to say.
2026-03-28 00:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-03-27)
INTERSTELLAR VISITOR: 3I/ATLAS
- Barycentric speed: 60.73 km/s (-0.02 km/s)
- Crossing the Saturn's orbit in: 104 days
๐ Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 796,893,745.07 km (+7,784,207.85 km)
- Distance (AU): 5.33 (+0.05)
- Light travel time: 44 min 18.23 s (+25.97 s)
2026-03-27 00:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-03-26)
INTERSTELLAR VISITOR: 3I/ATLAS
- Barycentric speed: 60.75 km/s (-0.02 km/s)
- Crossing the Saturn's orbit in: 105 days
๐ Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 789,109,537.21 km (+7,781,334.66 km)
- Distance (AU): 5.27 (+0.05)
- Light travel time: 43 min 52.27 s (+25.96 s)
Where are we now?
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