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| Chris Spratt / ICQ Comet Observations ~ 24 November 2025 |
There are lots to get through here so I'll organise my notes and post the main image then pause for a bit while you and I go get a large cuppa....
OK then, let's continue. I never expected to be posting so much about our Interstellar Visitor but there you go.
The image above ~ I don't know if it's because of different types of lenses or filters etc but the elusive tail seems to have vanished, or dissipated quite a bit. To be honest, even when a "tail" (or several) showed, it wasn't entirely comet-like.
Avi Loeb has come out with a convenient list summarising all the anomalies he has observed, including the latest one which makes it 13 in total. Each entry in the summary of 13 anomalies is given a probability ranking. Please read the summary here:
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/anomalies-of-3i-atlas-organized-by-likelihood-af20fb3b6d21
I will pull out this paragraph from Avi Loeb's previous post (here) explaining anomaly No.13, which boggles my mind:
....the so-called Hill radius, inside of which Jupiter’s gravity overcomes the gravitational tide from the Sun. Interior to that radius, Jupiter’s gravity wins over the Sun’s gravity and can keep low-speed orbiters bound without the Sun ripping them away. The Lagrange points L1 and L2 of force equilibrium are located at the Hill radius and are ideal locations for technological satellites, since orbital corrections and fuel requirements are minimal there.
Jupiter’s Hill radius is given by the equation:
H=R*(m/3M)^{1/3},
where R is Jupiter’s distance from the Sun at the particular time of interest, m is Jupiter’s mass and M is the Sun’s mass.
3I/ATLAS is expected to get to its closest distance from Jupiter on March 16, 2026. The Jupiter-Sun separation on that date will be R=783.8 million kilometers. Substituting this value in the above equation together with (m/3M)^{1/3}=0.06826, yields the Hill radius of Jupiter on March 16, 2026:
H=53.502 million kilometers.
The distance of closest approach of 3I/ATLAS to Jupiter is calculated by NASA’s JPL Horizons code based on orbital data gathered by about 230 observatories regarding its motion in the sky. This data includes the recently measured non-gravitational acceleration of 3I/ATLAS during perihelion, leading JPL Horizons to forecast that on March 16, 2026 3I/ATLAS will arrive at the following minimum distance from Jupiter:
Min{D}= 53.445 (+/- 0.06) million kilometers
Omigoddess.
To my non-expert understanding, this latest anomaly is the most fascinating ~ there is no such thing as "coincidence". Anomaly No.13 has the lowest probability at P=0.00004. That is one extremely low score indeed. Virtually impossible.
I don't know what to think about Avi Loeb's suggestion of our Visitor releasing probes around Jupiter as a means of surveillance or otherwise. We are already under surveillance or monitoring by both Guardians and fallen ones, no need for "probes". Avi Loeb also attributes the jets coming out of 3I/Atlas to "thrusters". I'm inclined to think that ships from advanced civilisations are powered by Consciousness and Plasma ~ thrusters may not be a thing for them. At any rate, I do not think our Visitor is a "ship" per se and as indicated previously, perhaps we should allow 3I/Atlas to be free from being labelled at this point in time.
If I were to engage my mind in the most far-out guess based on Avi Loeb's suggestion of "probes", it would be this ~ since Jupiter is largely a major base for the fallen ones, would our Visitor be doing some frequency clearing? It came really close to Mars, which is basically another HQ for the fallen ones. Did anything happen there?
Is this why they are so afraid of this Visitor?
The Space Race has released another video update about our Visitor, and once again, they have some well-presented points (just ignore the minor sensational overtones) which you can watch over here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCILDWN95GI
Somewhere in the video, they mention a change in trajectory with the implication that it is significant. It's actually just a teensy course-correction from non-gravitational acceleration to bring it to within Jupiter's Hill radius, as explained by Avi Loeb.
They also include the rapid and sudden brightening of 3I/Atlas ~ also pointed out by other sources ~ which reminds me of some videos I saw some years ago when I was following James Gilliland for a short while. Known as "Power Up", this occurs when a craft's attention is called (either by physical means via laser lights or intention/telepathy) and they respond.
Here is a screenshot (please watch the video here):
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| Eceti |
Let's see where some of us are at now in our Inner Solar System position-wise.
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| The Sky Live |
On 19 December 2025, when our Visitor is expected to be closest to Earth at 1.8 AU (almost twice the distance from our Sun to Earth), this is the positioning:
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| The Sky Live |
On the ecliptic plane, it looks like this:
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| The Sky Live |
I believe we will get some very nice data from the amateur Astronomers sector then.
Namarie! 💛
