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.
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