Avi Loeb

And the question is whether that's significant.

Well, if it is a technological object, that would be the right distance to release devices that would become satellites of Jupiter.

For that purpose,

And the satellites need to lose the velocity of three atlas relative to Jupiter so that they become gravitationally bound to Jupiter.

And it's practically impossible for a natural object to do that.

So if we see new satellites around Jupiter after March 16, then it would be a technological signature.

But if we don't, most likely this object was natural.

As long as we don't see it maneuvering, doing something unusual,

There were a number of anomalies of it that triggered my interest.

The most important among them was the fact that it's moving in the plane of the planets around the Sun.

That's why it comes so close to Jupiter.

That's why it's aligned with the Earth-Sun axis on January 22nd.

And that alignment within five degrees of the ecliptic plane is highly unlikely, one in 500 chance.

If we were to see hundreds of interstellar objects before one of them would align with the plane, I would say it's quite reasonable.

But for the third object to be aligned that well, you know, it's a sub percent probability.

And you complement that with the fact that there is this jet from the object that is oriented in the direction of the sun.

We've never seen anything like it.

It's stretched at a longer distance comparable to the distance to the moon from Earth.

So it's a very long jet.

And it's an anti-tale.