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3I/ATLAS

Third confirmed interstellar visitor to our solar system, officially C/2025 N1 (ATLAS). Discovered July 2025, it passed perihelion on Oct 29, 2025 at about 1.356 AU from the Sun.

Kepler elements Orbit basis, the same label the app shows on the selection card.

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Every aspect, with its origin

One record per aspect. The origin says what kind of thing each value is; the source says where it came from; the limit says what it cannot tell you.

ObservedCatalogComputedReconstructedIllustrativeUndocumented
Orbit Computed

Orbit from osculating elements

3I/ATLAS is placed by solving a Keplerian orbit at the simulation time (a = -0.3 AU, e = 6.141351449317625, i = 175.1°).

MethodTwo-body propagation of the stored elements by the shared orbit service; no perturbations.
LimitJPL solution includes non-gravitational acceleration parameters; the current renderer uses the listed osculating elements in a simplified hyperbolic solver.
Identity Catalog

3I/ATLAS source record

3I/ATLAS is presented using jpl osculating orbit; two-body visualization data.

Retrieved
LimitJPL solution includes non-gravitational acceleration parameters; the current renderer uses the listed osculating elements in a simplified hyperbolic solver.
Appearance Illustrative

Close-up appearance

The surface is a procedural shape unless a source record above says otherwise. It is not a measured shape model.

SourceSpace Time rendering contract
LimitNot a resolved observation.
Description Undocumented

Description and facts

The short description and the fact list are written by the Space Time authors for orientation. They are not quoted from a catalog field and carry no citation of their own.

SourceSpace Time editorial text
LimitBackground reading is linked under Further reading; it is not the source of the displayed numbers.

What is not measured

  • Appearance: a picture, not a measurement. Close-up appearance. Not a resolved observation.

Not yet documented

  • Description: Background reading is linked under Further reading; it is not the source of the displayed numbers.

Dataset freshness

Snapshots this page depends on, read from the generated manifests at request time.
DatasetLast refreshedHorizonAutomated
Current comets and near-Earth asteroids no snapshot date Osculating elements at the snapshot epoch; propagated as two-body conics Yes, weekly (Monday data job)
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Sources cited

Further reading

Wikipedia: 3I/ATLAS (background only; not the source of the displayed numbers)

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