More information: Astrophysical Journal Letters, iopscience.iop.org/2041-8205/800/1/L17
This is an artist's conception of Scholz's star and its brown dwarf companion (foreground) during its flyby of the solar system 70,000 years ago. The Sun (left, background) would have appeared as a brilliant star. The pair is now about 20 light years away. Credit: Michael Osadciw/University of Rochester
To: Red Badger
Maybe that’s why Pluto’s orbit is so skewed?
2 posted on
02/22/2015 7:48:36 AM PST by
Jack Hydrazine
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To: Red Badger
...five times closer...”
aaaggghhhh!! WTH does that mean? From a university, no less. Right there in the second sentence, too; front and center.
Other than that, interesting info.
3 posted on
02/22/2015 7:50:20 AM PST by
ProtectOurFreedom
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I wonder if that would have had the gravitational pull to move our poles? And 70,000 years ago is pretty close to when the human race was almost wiped out, isn’t it?
4 posted on
02/22/2015 7:50:58 AM PST by
Vermont Lt
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8 posted on
02/22/2015 7:55:10 AM PST by
BenLurkin
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Space, its really big.
18 posted on
02/22/2015 8:10:09 AM PST by
cripplecreek
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To: Red Badger
Why is the Sun depicted so reddish in the illustration? Plus the distance scale seems skewed. I don’t think the Sun would have seemed so large at that distance.
Some of that flaring must have scared the #%&@ out of our ancient ancestors.
19 posted on
02/22/2015 8:14:41 AM PST by
onedoug
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Space Ping! Cataclysm Ping?................
24 posted on
02/22/2015 8:20:50 AM PST by
Red Badger
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so... it is now 20 light years away and it’s closest approach was 0.8 LY. 70,000 years to travel 19.2 LY. That is a relative speed of 3061 MPH.
31 posted on
02/22/2015 9:31:49 AM PST by
Rodamala
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37 posted on
02/22/2015 12:51:27 PM PST by
Jim Noble
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