Seamus O'Quill

queerdruid.bsky.social

14 November 2025 21:55

personal incredulity is not a rational argument nor the repeated ad hominem attacks

You are welcome Catfather

The transverse term A2 is (3.75+-1.59)e-7 au/day2 (2.4sigma). i.e. negligible. These are *not* “unprecedented, *not* unexpected, I’m unaware of any scientist friends who are “bewildered”. Still a comet, albeit an interesting one whose properties may tell us something about other systems. #3IATLAS

Updated Comet 3I/ATLAS #3IATLAS orbit dropped from JPL Small-Body Database, including measured positions thru Nov 4. ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_l... The “non-gravitational” acceleration terms in the orbit are *barely statistically significant*…the radial term A1 is (1.11+-0.30)e-7 au/day2 (3.7sig)

If comets are like cats, and planetary scientists have been studying domestic cats, tigers, leopards, jaguars, etc., of our solar system for many years, then comet 3I/ATLAS barges in like a serval or ocelot on an unbound e=6 orbit from somewhere else 😂. But it still purrs and scratches #3IATLAS