Alright… let’s talk about 3I/ATLAS and its pass near Jupiter — because when you run the simulation in detail, there can be moments where the geometry looks weirdly clean. The internet’s favorite word for that is “engineered.”
But we’re going to do this properly: no hype, no panic — just orbital mechanics, uncertainty, and the tests that separate “interesting” from “real.”
Because near Jupiter, trajectories can look dramatic for perfectly natural reasons. Jupiter is basically a gravitational cheat code: it can bend paths, magnify tiny measurement errors, and make a normal object look like it “did something” when what actually changed was our fit.
What this video covers
What a Jupiter pass does to a small body’s trajectory (gravity assist physics)
Credit to : Astro Alerts