Conclusion: 3I/ATLAS is exotic and wonderful. It is also a comet.
fta:
Non-gravitational acceleration comes from the gentle push comets experience from their own outgassing. Jets of icy material sublimating from the nucleus recoil like tiny rocket engines, nudging the comet off the path it would follow under gravity alone.
blow my mind we can measure this stuff so accurately. and that the sublimation of icy material has enough oomph to push a comet.
