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Intercepting 3I/ATLAS at Closest Approach to Jupiter with the Juno spacecraft — mentioned by perihelions

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 17:22:29 GMT

You can read their paper here[0]. I agree it's very dodgy (and without even looking at that author's past). While the comet 3I/ATLAS approaches within 53 million km of Jupiter (0.3 au), all they can propose is, optimistically, to bring Juno to within half that distance–27 million km. Hardly seems worth the risks? And that'd end all of Juno's remaining Jupiter science (assuming the MAGA! FY26 budget doesn't get to it first. It's fully defunded, if anyone hadn't heard). Referring to their figs. 3–7, that distance figure is a hard limit—there's no possibility they have of getting closer to the…

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Intercepting 3I/ATLAS at Closest Approach to Jupiter with the Juno spacecraft — mentioned by 827a

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 21:48:27 GMT

Yes he did so: Poorly. His idea [0] to use Juno is a pretty bad one, given that it doesn't have the fuel to do what he suggests, and even if it did, one of its engines was damaged during a recent maneuver. And, at least according to Jason Wright, Loeb should have known all this but ignored it [1], because headlines. The ESA has a possibly more promising plan to divert a probe that's on its way to Jupiter right now [2]. So, again: If you're going to write "The feasibility of intercepting 3I/ATLAS depends on the current amount of fuel available from the propulsion system of Juno" one thing a…

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Intercepting 3I/ATLAS at Closest Approach to Jupiter with the Juno spacecraft — HN submission

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 19:07:24 GMT

Intercepting 3I/ATLAS at Closest Approach to Jupiter with the Juno Spacecraft

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