“70,000 years ago, space got a little crowded: a low-mass binary star system passed by our solar system at the…

“70,000 years ago, space got a little crowded: a low-mass binary star system passed by our solar system at the narrow distance of 0.82 light-years. This is near enough for the system — known as Scholz’s star — to have actually clipped the outer edge of the Oort cloud.”

http://aasnova.org/2015/12/31/selections-from-2015-close-encounter-of-our-solar-system-with-another-star/

14 replies on ““70,000 years ago, space got a little crowded: a low-mass binary star system passed by our solar system at the…”

  1. Based off of what you said and I am NOT a science scholar I would like to know this event would it be affected by solar flares or just a simple interjection interference with another item that is flowing in space?

  2. P Heinz I think not. It’s closest approach was estimated at about 0.8 light years. In contrast, Pluto is 5.5 light hours from the Sun and the Earth is 8 light minutes from the Sun. So the affect on the solar system would be pretty minimal since it never got that close

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