I found the videos and images online a little confusing. It's easy to check the data by the declination sign. Tom Ruen ( talk) 04:19, 2 December 2017 (UTC) Tomruen: Could you tell me on what date ʻOumuamua passed above the ecliptic and when it passed back through? nagual design 22:01, 2 December 2017 (UTC) I've thought about visualization changes for above/below the ecliptic. Where images are now don't really make sense. But I don't know where they are best in the article either. I might tinker with it a little if you don't mind, Tom? nagual design 04:15, 2 December 2017 (UTC) Sure. I'm glad that one was chosen over the others. Tom Ruen ( talk) 20:58, 1 December 2017 (UTC) The third one looks good. Tom Ruen ( talk) 16:10, 1 December 2017 (UTC) Here's another shown from a fixed perspective above the solar system so the hyperbola focus is more clearly on the sun. Kheider ( talk) 19:42, 1 December 2017 (UTC) Here's another quick one (unlabeled), motion seen from the sun although an impossible view, a simpler motion. Just need to describe it as Oumuamua's motion across the sky. BatteryIncluded ( talk) 15:37, 1 December 2017 (UTC) I like it. It could be a source of interpretational problems. Tom Ruen ( talk) 08:10, 1 December 2017 (UTC) Nice diagram, and it must have taken a lot of work, but it is very easily misunderstood as its actual trajectory, and gives the impression of orbiting stellar objects. It was closest to earth in Orion, but unfortunately before discovery. So along with the pretty annual retrograde loops, you can see the source converges near Vega in Lyra, and the destination converges in the great square of Pegasus. So this shows its path viewed from the earth, with 7 days of motion, and yellow spheres proportional to angular sizes. I need to validate it a bit, but seems to be good. I finally got around to adding an import function for drawing orbital ephemeris from JPL's HORIZONS system. Shown from a fixed perspective above the Solar System

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