The reason, the team determined, is because it was moving towards us in such a way that its motion across the night sky was counteracted by the Earth's spin.
BULL!
This graphic is a STILL snapshot.
The earth is moving against a background of stars and the apparent motion of any external closeup object is going to show because of the dynamic parallax.
31 posted on 01/17/2022 6:48:27 PM PST by Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)