A close call of 0.8 light years [Nibiru?]

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[Red Badger]

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

[Jack Hydrazine]

Maybe that’s why Pluto’s orbit is so skewed?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

...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.

[Vermont Lt]

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?

[Red Badger]

Pluto is goofey.
Goofey is Pluto............

[cripplecreek]

It certainly would have skewed things but it was still a long way from Pluto’s orbit. Sedna has a much more elongated orbit that takes it out that way.

70,000 years is the blink of an eye. It could have unsettled comets that are currently headed this way but are still unseen.

However its also important to remember that the Oort cloud is likely but still theoretical.

[Red Badger]

"Scholz's star."

[BenLurkin]

Subaru

[spokeshave]

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?

Well...if it happens again....the good news is that Obama's moral compass might finally get magnetized.

[Red Badger]

It could have unsettled comets that are currently headed this way but are still unseen.

Hopefully Jupiter has some pull................

[null and void]

“I didn’t say she’s crazy, I said she’s f’ing Goofy!” ~ Mickey Mouse to his divorce attorney...

[null and void]

“Subaru” is Japanese for “The Pleiades”.

Hence the six star logo.

(Apparently one of the Seven Sisters wandered off...)

[null and void]

Well...if it happens again....the good news is that Obama's moral compass might finally get magnetized.

It is magnetized.

It INVARIABLY pulls him to the most radical muslim alternative.

[barefoot_hiker]

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218467.Lucifer_s_Hammer

[cripplecreek]

I’ve never been a big believer in the idea that jupiter protects us that much. For all of its size its still tiny in the vastness of space and comets come from all directions. Its also just as likely to fling comets toward the sun as it is to fling them away.

[Red Badger]

I read that book in 1978-79 time frame...............really good...................

[Red Badger]

It warps the fabric of Space-Time, so that they are pulled in that general direction, but depends on the position of everything else, including US.................

[cripplecreek]

Space, its really big.

[onedoug]

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.

[Red Badger]

They always show the asteroid belt as being populated with a lot of rocks like dust in a Oklahoma farm field. It’s really a lot sparser that they imagine..............