Interestingly enough, it is traveling very slowly with regards to the average motion of all the local stars. You could look at it as just sitting there in the v

Interestingly enough, it is traveling very slowly with regards to the average motion of all the local stars. You could look at it as just sitting there in the void, slowly drifting until our system zoomed on by and flung it off in a new direction in its wake. (see point 2 here: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/6-strange-facts-about-the-interstellar-visitor-oumuamua/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/6-strange-... and the more detailed discussion of this it links to)