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Star Blasted Through Solar System 70,000 Years Ago
discovery.com ^ | Ian O'Neill

Posted on 02/18/2015 1:11:46 PM PST by BenLurkin

Highlighted by astronomers at the University of Rochester and the European Southern Observatory, the star — nicknamed “Scholz’s star” — has a very low tangential velocity in the sky, but it has been clocked traveling at a breakneck speed away from us.

In other words, from our perspective, Scholz’s star is fleeing the scene of a collision with us.

“Most stars this nearby show much larger tangential motion,” said Eric Mamajek, of the University of Rochester. “The small tangential motion and proximity initially indicated that the star was most likely either moving towards a future close encounter with the solar system, or it had ‘recently’ come close to the solar system and was moving away. Sure enough, the radial velocity measurements were consistent with it running away from the Sun’s vicinity — and we realized it must have had a close flyby in the past.”

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Using data from the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) and the Magellan telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, Mamajek and his collaborators were able to measure the star’s spectra and radial velocity. Through these observations they were able to deduce that Scholz’s star is a dim red dwarf approximately 20 light-years away. It is actually part of a binary system, with its partner being a small brown dwarf (or a ‘failed star’).

Taking these data, the researchers were able to model several different orbital possibilities and deduce that the star almost definitely (to a 98 percent certainty) came within 0.8 light years from the sun. Although this is still quite a margin, the star would have careened though the Oort Cloud — a hypothetical region filled with frozen cometary nuclei surrounding the solar system.

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TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: 70000yearsago; browndwarf; catastrophism; comets; complutense; darkstar; deusexmachina; ericmamajek; gemini; johnmatese; mounttoba; neanderthals; nemesis; oortcloud; oumuamua; reddwarf; scholzsstar; spain; sverrejaarseth; toba; unitedkingdom; uofcambridge; uofmadrid; uofrochester; xplanets
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To: GodAndCountryFirst
"The Creation was not that far in the past. So, NOTHING could have happened 70,000 years ago!"

So how do you explain a galaxy being 25 MILLION Light Years away? Do you think that's not possible? We see it, which means what we are looking at happened 25 million years ago.

To not offend you, I'll refrain from commenting further....

41 posted on 02/18/2015 2:51:19 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: blam; montomike
Too bad cave drawings only go back 35,000-40,000 years.

Would have been interesting stuff from 70,000.

42 posted on 02/18/2015 2:57:11 PM PST by The Cajun (Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert....Nuff said.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Whaddayamean 50,000 times?!? It’s only 49892.473118 times! ;’) Thanks U.


43 posted on 02/18/2015 3:02:35 PM PST by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: montomike; BenLurkin; eldoradude; Mr. K

The Toba ‘supereruption’ is probably mythical. Regardless, even a small star passing less than a light year away wouldn’t trigger a volcanic eruption on Earth.

If indeed the Oort Cloud exists (so far it only exists as a mathematical consequence to the currently dominant related set of Solar System origin models) a bunch of those bodies would have wound up on screwy orbits, which could explain a bunch of the trans-Neptunian objects found in the last twenty years.

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44 posted on 02/18/2015 3:08:54 PM PST by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: BenLurkin
the star almost definitely (to a 98 percent certainty) came within 0.8 light years from the sun. Although this is still quite a margin, the star would have careened though the Oort Cloud

They killed our dinosaurs. D@mn you, Scholz!

45 posted on 02/18/2015 3:15:34 PM PST by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: Sirius Lee
Oh, 70,000 not 70,000,000 years ago.

Never mind.

46 posted on 02/18/2015 3:16:44 PM PST by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: GodAndCountryFirst

I knew a member at my church years ago who worked at Caltech.

He demanded to know if I thought God was incapable of creating the light from distant stars on its way to earth and thus only give the appearance of immense age. Same thing with the geologic record on Earth, which evidences eons of time having passed

“Of course God can do that,” I told him. “But why would He?”

The fellow was non-plussed. The discussion had apparently never turned to that previously.


47 posted on 02/18/2015 3:20:43 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Larry Lucido
I hope someone followed that star and got its license plate number!

They did. It was Justin Bieber.

48 posted on 02/18/2015 3:21:59 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

WISE 0720-0846 (full designation name WISE J072003.20-084651.2, also known as Scholz’s star after its discoverer)[3] is a binary system about 17–23 light-years (5.1–7.2 parsecs) from the Sun in the southern constellation Monoceros near the Galactic plane.[2] The primary is a red dwarf with a stellar classification of M9±1 and has 86±2 Jupiter masses.[2] The secondary is probably a T5 brown dwarf with 65±12 Jupiter masses.[2] The system has 0.15 solar masses.[2] The pair orbit at a distance of about 0.8 astronomical units (120,000,000 kilometers; 74,000,000 miles).[2] The system has an apparent magnitude of 18.3,[2] and is estimated to be 3–10 billion years old.[2]

It is estimated that the WISE 0720-0846 system passed about 52,000 astronomical units (0.25 parsecs; 0.82 light-years) from the Sun about 70,000 years ago.[2][3] Comets perturbed from the Oort cloud would require roughly 2 million years to get to the inner Solar System.[2] At closest approach the star would have had an apparent magnitude of about 10.3.[2] Such close approaches are expected to occur every 100,000 years or so.[2]

The star was first discovered to be a nearby star by astronomer Ralf-Dieter Scholz,[3] announced on arXiv in November 2013, and has been nicknamed Scholz’s star.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholz’s_star


49 posted on 02/18/2015 3:24:13 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: GodAndCountryFirst

Relax. Your faith does not hinge on that which we cannot understand.


50 posted on 02/18/2015 3:38:40 PM PST by ImaGraftedBranch (If you haven't figured it out, there is a great falling away...happening before your eyes.)
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To: BenLurkin

Was he stuned?


51 posted on 02/18/2015 3:49:07 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: BenLurkin

We are the balls on a pool table.....


52 posted on 02/18/2015 3:50:07 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: NorthMountain

Wow, and a global warming hoaxer as well.


53 posted on 02/18/2015 3:57:14 PM PST by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: antidisestablishment

There was something before light

There was something that communicated: “Let there be light”

John 1 says “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”

John compares Christ to the first light that flashed into the beginning of the Universe

Science has yet to explain the Word (information) that directed the light


54 posted on 02/18/2015 4:27:43 PM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: ctdonath2

It’s not an “illusion.”Your preconceptions are wrong. It’s only an illusion if you think what you are looking at should be interpreted to mean what false science says it should.


55 posted on 02/18/2015 5:28:19 PM PST by GodAndCountryFirst
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To: SunkenCiv

I have met the fellow, professionally. On the topic of electric spacecraft thrusters (ion drives) and plasmas generally, he’s perfectly sane.

Just beware ... if you let the conversation drift off topic, it will fall over the edge in a hurry.


56 posted on 02/18/2015 6:00:23 PM PST by NorthMountain
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To: UCANSEE2
That is a little over 50,000 times the distance from the Sun to the Earth.

By my calculations, that is close enough to make a small child emit a very loud "Mom! He touched me!"

57 posted on 02/18/2015 6:06:27 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Throw All the Bums Out.)
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To: BenLurkin

Recently I’ve been studying stars close to SOL and on approaching paths.
I didn’t think to look at stars which had recently passed.
Thanks for post


58 posted on 02/18/2015 6:21:57 PM PST by Zathras
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To: silverleaf

Science can’t explain God or anything else outside of nature. Only the infinite can truly contemplate infinity.

Our understanding is dwarfed by the tiniest part of creation, how would you propose to know the infinite? Revelation must suffice until we move beyond this mortal, finite body.


59 posted on 02/18/2015 7:05:51 PM PST by antidisestablishment (When the passion of your convictions surpass those of your leader, it's past time for a change.)
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To: miliantnutcase

One atom’s gravity exerts an influence on the solar system and the Universe.


60 posted on 02/18/2015 7:11:37 PM PST by Theophilus (Be as prolific as you are pro-life.)
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