{"id":43258,"date":"2025-12-16T18:48:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43258"},"modified":"2025-12-16T18:48:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:48:39","slug":"the-non-gravitational-acceleration-of-3i-atlas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43258","title":{"rendered":"THE NON-GRAVITATIONAL ACCELERATION OF 3I\/ATLAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweather.com\/images2025\/15dec25\/atlas_strip.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:193px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><br>Conclusion: <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceweather.com\/archive.php?view=1&amp;day=16&amp;month=12&amp;year=2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">3I\/ATLAS is exotic and wonderful. It is also a comet<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>blow my mind we can measure this stuff so accurately.  and that the sublimation of icy material has enough oomph to push a comet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conclusion: 3I\/ATLAS is exotic and wonderful. It is also a comet. fta:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[34,2172],"class_list":["post-43258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-astronomy","tag-comets","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43259,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43258\/revisions\/43259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}