# The orbit fits water, CO2 and CO laws equally well

> Królikowska, Spada and Dones find the astrometry fits water-type, volatile and extreme-volatile activity laws equally well, so the orbit alone cannot…

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# The orbit fits water, CO2 and CO laws equally well

Królikowska, Spada and Dones find the astrometry fits water-type, volatile and extreme-volatile activity laws equally well, so the orbit alone cannot name the gas.

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## 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

Part of it[Which gas carries the push: carbon dioxide, water or carbon monoxide?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/3i-atlas/questions/QST0DFQ0T1AWZRC/which-gas-carries-the-push-carbon-dioxide-water-or-carbon)

2 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[Water carries the push](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/3i-atlas/answers/ANS0DFQ2MF9XR6J/water-carries-the-push)

Bears onnone for, 1 against

**Still possible** unchanged

What it implies
1.

Deciding needs the measured production curves, not standard laws.For: Which gas carries the push: carbon dioxide, water or carbon monoxide?

## Next steps 1

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Refit the orbit with CO2 and water activity laws

Could shiftFair odds~30 h

[On: Which gas carries the push: carbon dioxide, water or carbon monoxide?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/3i-atlas/questions/QST0DFQ0T1AWZRC/which-gas-carries-the-push-carbon-dioxide-water-or-carbon)

**7** score

Details

Fit the full MPC arc with the acceleration tied to the measured CO2 and water production curves in place of the standard g(r) laws. Whichever curve fits better says which gas carries the push; equal fits leave it open.

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

## Sources 1

[Nongravitational Motion of 3I/ATLAS Far from the Sun: Robust Detection, Weak Constraints on the Activity Law](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DFPWGSG4XRH/nongravitational-motion-of-3i-atlas-far-from-the-sun-robust)

Królikowska et al. 2026

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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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