{"id":38809,"date":"2025-07-30T13:57:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T11:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/?p=38809"},"modified":"2025-07-30T20:19:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T18:19:36","slug":"intercepting-3i-atlas-at-closest-approach-to-jupiter-with-the-juno-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/?p=38809","title":{"rendered":"Intercepting 3I\/ATLAS at Closest Approach to Jupiter with the Juno spacecraft<span class=\"badge-status\" style=\"background:#787878\">OPEN ACCESS<\/span>&nbsp;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Abraham Loeb, Adam Hibberd, Adam Crowl<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Draft version July 30, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2507.21402\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>PDF (OPEN ACCESS)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify-text\">The interstellar object 3I\/ATLAS is expected to arrive at a distance of 53.56(\u00b10.45) million km (0.358 \u00b1 0.003 au) from Jupiter on March 16, 2026. We show that applying a total thrust \u2206V of 2.6755 km s\u22121 to lower perijove on September 9, 2025 and then execute a Jupiter Oberth Maneuver, can bring the Juno spacecraft from its orbit around Jupiter to intercept the path of 3I\/ATLAS on March 14, 2026. A close fly-by might be able to probe the nature of 3I\/ATLAS far better than telescopes on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abraham Loeb, Adam Hibberd, Adam Crowl Draft version July 30, 2025 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) The interstellar object 3I\/ATLAS is expected to arrive at a distance of 53.56(\u00b10.45) million km (0.358 \u00b1 0.003 au) from Jupiter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,181],"tags":[6913,1870,4253],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38811,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38809\/revisions\/38811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}