Worth considering: The orbital plane of 3I/ATLAS is unusually precise with the Sun.
Preface: Researchers at the University of California, Riverside conducted an experiment that found that if a terrestrial planet existed between Mars and Jupiter, it could push Earth out of the solar system and destroy life on it.
Ref: The full research paper was published in the February 28, 2022 issue of The Planetary Science Journal (PSJ); the title is: The Dynamical Consequences of a Super-Earth in the Solar System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/acbb6b/epub
Point of view: The orbit of 3I/ATLAS passthrough MARS and Jupiter. This is the topic if we are interested to worth? Because the asteroid belt is a region of space between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter where most of the asteroids in our Solar System are found orbiting the Sun.
Between Mars and Jupiter lies the main asteroid belt, a dense region of millions of rocky and metallic asteroids that orbit the Sun but cannot form planets. This region marks the boundary between the rocky planets of the inner solar system and the gas giants of the outer solar system. The asteroid belt is very sparse, and spacecraft can easily pass through it; the largest object in it is the dwarf planet Ceres.
Ceres is a dwarf planet in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, discovered in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi. It is the largest object in the belt, composed of rock and ice, and was the first dwarf planet to be visited by a spacecraft (NASA’s Dawn mission). Evidence suggests that Ceres is a geologically active world, possibly containing an underground salty ocean, and may have once been able to support microbial life.
Do you think 3I/ATLAS is an advanced civilization probe? It came to our solar system to understand who we are. First, it wants to understand our solar system, especially the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter?
Professor Loeb provides the latest developments in 3I/Atlas –
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/gravitational-lensing-of-3i-atlas-by-the-sun-f4ca18720d65
