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The Wikipedia article [0] has a nice animation [1] of the trajectory through the inner solar system, sourced from this [2] 3D interactive viewer (press “Plot Ob
by layer8 1y ago
The Wikipedia article [0] has a nice animation [1] of the trajectory through the inner solar system, sourced from this [2] 3D interactive viewer (press “Plot Object” and then drag the slider below “Change Time Speed”).
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3I/ATLAS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3I/ATLAS
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3I/ATLAS#/media/File%3A3I_ATLAS_animation3.gif https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3I/ATLAS#/media/File%3A3I_ATLA...
[2] https://neofixer.arizona.edu/css-orbit-view https://neofixer.arizona.edu/css-orbit-view
- perilunar 1y agoThanks for [2]. The wikipedia animation makes it look roughly in-plane, but the 3D viewer shows that it is very much not.