Charged particles in the shower, mostly electrons and positrons, are deflected slightly in Earth's magnetic field.
Their labellum is white showing few colored drawings and narrow terminal lobe, slightly deflected.
General scientific opinion is that it'll be deflected slightly toward the sun, crossing the orbits of the outer planets again as it exits the system.
The thing didn't hit the planet, it didn't get slightly deflected.
When the laser encounters these changes, the beam slightly deflects and displaces to a new course.
The first three .50-caliber rounds penetrated the wall easily enough, but they were deflected slightly, striking around the Russian.
Bullets passing through either hole may be deflected slightly by hitting the walls of the hole.
A Gaussian distribution peaked at that center is present because some photons are deflected slightly by the edges of the hole.
But it came on, its path deflected only slightly.
The soliton pulse through subspace would have to deflect slightly around the cloaking field itself.