# An orbit close to the planets' plane, passing near three of them

> Hibberd, Crowl and Loeb put the chance of an orbit this close to the ecliptic passing near Venus, Mars and Jupiter at below about 0.005 per cent, and…

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# An orbit close to the planets' plane, passing near three of them

Hibberd, Crowl and Loeb put the chance of an orbit this close to the ecliptic passing near Venus, Mars and Jupiter at below about 0.005 per cent, and Eldadi and colleagues rated 3I 4 on a 0-10 significance scale.

Speculative0

## What it means

Key question[Is 3I/ATLAS a natural comet or a technological object?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/3i-atlas/questions/QST0DFQ0N9WT65H/is-3i-atlas-a-natural-comet-or-a-technological-object)

No answer ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[A technological object](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/3i-atlas/answers/ANS0DFQ33XWJ6XP/a-technological-object)

Supports1 for, 2 against

**Still possible** unchanged

What it implies
1.

A coincidence argument; it does not by itself distinguish design from chance among many possible coincidences.For the key question: Is 3I/ATLAS a natural comet or a technological object?

## Sources 3

[Is the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Alien Technology?](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CSKBET26693/is-the-interstellar-object-3i-atlas-alien-technology)

Hibberd et al. 2025

SRC

[Quantitative Mapping of the Loeb Scale](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DFPWGSF4Q95/quantitative-mapping-of-the-loeb-scale)

Trivedi 2025

SRC

[The Loeb Scale: Astronomical Classification of Interstellar Objects](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0CSKBF9P5MF1/the-loeb-scale-astronomical-classification-of-interstellar)

Eldadi et al. 2025

SRC

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). An orbit close to the planets' plane, passing near three of them [Evidence EVD0DFQ54HVJ0KF]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DFQ54HVJ0KF
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Key

**EVD** 0DFQ54HVJ0KF

Kind

Evidence

Tier

Speculative

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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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