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In a recent post on X, Congresswoman Rep. Anna Paulina Luna shared her formal request to NASA, urging the agency to investigate object 31/ATLAS. She wrote:

"I’m urging NASA to extend the Juno mission to study interstellar object 31/ATLAS. Thank you Avi Loeb for your continued dedication to exploring our universe. We must seize this opportunity for groundbreaking discovery."

(https://x.com/RepLuna/status/1951379349128815062)

This request was inspired by what Professor Avi Loeb presented a few days ago in a new preprint he co‑authored with scientists Adam Hibberd and Adam Crowl. According to him, applying a thrust of 2.675 kilometers per second on September 14, 2025, could allow the Juno probe to leave its orbit around Jupiter and intercept the trajectory of 3I/ATLAS.

(https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/Juno.pdf)