In as much as the solar system (like most of everything else in the physical universe on that scale or larger) is mostly empty space, “smash into” is a bizarre choice of words. Pass through through, wreaking havoc on planetary orbits and causing drastic heating of all the planets, is vastly more probable than “smash[ing] into” anything.
So, we can mark the Mayan 2012 and Da Vinci 4006 *kaboom* off the list?
What’s Nostradamus take on this?
The story is obviously over-hyped. The odds that within 1.5 million years a star could strike a planet 4.5 billion years old are over 3,000 to one. If the story was true, I’d have to seriously question how the earth could have survived such risks long enough for life to evolve.
“smash into” is a bizarre choice of words”
Oh, but it’s so panic-stricken terrifyingly INTENSE!
[who needs scientific/statistical reality when you can conjure up perfectly good hyperbole?]...:)