Is the gas giant about to have a close encounter of the 3I kind?

Harvard scientist Avi Loeb claims that 3I/ATLAS’ bizarre trajectory could suggest that it’s sending “satellites” to Jupiter to gather intel for an “extraterrestrial civilization.”

Loeb told The Post that 31/ATLAS could be using its time near Jupiter on March 16, 2026, to “seed” additional probes onto the gas giant.

In a new blog on Medium , the astrophysicist speculated Jupiter could have attracted ATLAS because it was “bigger” than Earth and other neighboring planets in our solar system, and therefore acted like an intergalactic signal beacon.

Loeb said that for the comet to do recon on Jupiter, it would have to move into a region where Jupiter’s gravity dominates over the Sun’s — called the Hill radius. That area cont

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