Astronomy / Space LOOP OF SHAME? - The Journey Of Oumuamua

[Raino]

Maybe its pilot use a worn out hotas? strange route indeed

 

[ilo]

Those deathzones!

 

[metatheurgist]

Alien probe confirmed!

 

[Para Handy]

Maybe its pilot use a worn out hotas? strange route indeed

That is not a depiction of it's route, it shows the location against the background stars for an observer on earth viewing the probe asteroid comet.

The "curlicues" at either end of the plot show the effect of the earth's orbit on the parallax.

 

[Speedcuffs]

Pretty sure that's a Music Clef. And when I run it through my audio analyzer i hear, "can you hear me, Major Tom"?

Are you in your tin can?

 

[Manticore]

Are you in your tin can?

Are you far above the world?