# Jets line up with the acceleration

> Of three persistent jets seen after perihelion, one lay within half a degree of the projected transverse direction of the acceleration on 30 November 2025.

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Evidence · 3I/ATLAS

# Jets line up with the acceleration

Of three persistent jets seen after perihelion, one lay within half a degree of the projected transverse direction of the acceleration on 30 November 2025.

Suggestive0

## What it means

Key question[What pushes 3I/ATLAS off a purely gravitational path?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/3i-atlas/questions/QST0DFQ0M0GNENV/what-pushes-3i-atlas-off-a-purely-gravitational-path)

No answer ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[Gas escaping from the nucleus, as on any active comet](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/3i-atlas/answers/ANS0DFQ1PMTRVR2/gas-escaping-from-the-nucleus-as-on-any-active-comet)

Supports3 for, none against

**Still possible** unchanged

What it implies
1.

The jets could be the source of the push's sideways components.For the key question: What pushes 3I/ATLAS off a purely gravitational path?

## Next steps 1

1

Watch the JPL orbit for JWST program 13145

Adds evidenceGood odds~2 h

[On: What pushes 3I/ATLAS off a purely gravitational path?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/3i-atlas/questions/QST0DFQ0M0GNENV/what-pushes-3i-atlas-off-a-purely-gravitational-path)

**24** score

Details

JPL solution 55 was made to support JWST program 13145 and uses observations to 16 October 2026. Compare the next solutions: an acceleration that stays at zero far out on the outbound leg supports outgassing; one that persists would not.

Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes

## Sources 2

[Linking System of Jets to the Non-Gravitational Acceleration of 3I/ATLAS](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DFPWGSFRBKC/linking-system-of-jets-to-the-non-gravitational-acceleration)

Scarmato 2026

SRC

[Pre-perihelion detection of a wobbling high-latitude jet in the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DFPWGSFQMRE/pre-perihelion-detection-of-a-wobbling-high-latitude-jet-in)

Serra-Ricart et al. 2025

SRC

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Jets line up with the acceleration [Evidence EVD0DFQ4KSH16TV]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DFQ4KSH16TV
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Key

**EVD** 0DFQ4KSH16TV

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Evidence

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Suggestive

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[Session 1](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/3i-atlas/sessions/SES0DFQC03S98K5/session-1-3i-atlas-opened-the-literature-to-november-2026) · 2 Nov 2026

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