Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS performed a maneuver as it approached the Sun, demonstrating the first evidence of non-gravitational acceleration.
About this it said in a report from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
It is postulated that the radial acceleration away from the Sun is 135 km (9×10-7 AU) squared per day and the horizontal acceleration relative to the Sun is 60 km (4×10-7 AU) squared per day.
The maneuver was recorded at a distance of 203 million km.
Previously, Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb announced on his blog that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS moving in a strange orbit through the solar system.
