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To: Mr. K
I know... can you imagine what that must have looked like?

Not much to be honest - it's a very faint star. Even at that type of close approach, it wouldn't have been visible to the naked eye.

Am I reading tis article correctly? This thing blew through our solar system 70K years ago?

By some definitions, the outer solar system, yes - but not really the solar system as we commonly think of it. We'd still be looking at this star being somewhere around 1000 times as far from the sun as Pluto.

20 posted on 02/18/2015 1:57:19 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: naturalman1975

Wonder if there are any planets around it?


65 posted on 02/18/2015 11:27:29 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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