[BenLurkin]

Of possible interest ping.

[cripplecreek]

70,000 years isn’t that long and could have shaken things loose in the Oort cloud that could still be headed our way.

[GraceG]

Could this be the origins of the “Nemesis Mythos”?

[doorgunner69]

a small brown dwarf (or a ‘failed star’)"

I am sure the author intended a racist and possibly anti-small people insinuation there...............

[Mr. K]

70,000 years??? Whew...that was close!

[SpaceBar]

It might be prudent to look in the opposite direction for a similar but blue-shifted object.

[montomike]

70,000 years ago, a huge super volcano blew its stuff all over the world. It was called the Lake Toba (Sumatra) catastrophe.

The human population was reduced from about a million to about 10,000 or so souls that prepped well enough to survive.

I have always wanted to know what set it off...now I know.

[GodAndCountryFirst]

Nope. Sorry. The Creation was not that far in the past. So, NOTHING could have happened 70,000 years ago! Science proves it!

https://answersingenesis.org/theory-of-evolution/millions-of-years/rate-research-results-fatal-blow-to-billions-of-years/

[Larry Lucido]

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

I hope someone followed that star and got its license plate number! Of course, if it's a cute star, you might want to ask it out on a date.

[Darksheare]

NOT my fault.

[eldoradude]

Interesting.

Wonder what the sun traded for Pluto.

[Mr. K]

If that thing was that close I could imagine it easily disrupting planetary orbits and sending any civilization that existed 70K years ago under water

[spokeshave]

tar 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

Marx and Engles

[The Cajun]

As best as I can figure, it passed through at only around 175,000 mph, so should have been a “big show” for many, many years.

[Sirius Lee]

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!

[P.O.E.]

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

[minnesota_bound]

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

[Zathras]

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

[AppyPappy]

Do you remember that, bert?