Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
Posted on 03/20/2018 8:40:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Scholz's star -- named after the German astronomer who discovered it -- approached less than a light-year from the Sun. Nowadays it is almost 20 light-years away, but 70,000 years ago it entered the Oort cloud, a reservoir of trans-Neptunian objects located at the confines of the solar system.
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Now two astronomers from the Complutense University of Madrid, the brothers Carlos and Raúl de la Fuente Marcos, together with the researcher Sverre J. Aarseth of the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), have analyzed for the first time the nearly 340 objects of the solar system with hyperbolic orbits (very open V-shaped, not the typical elliptical), and in doing so they have detected that the trajectory of some of them is influenced by the passage of Scholz´s star.
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"In principle," he adds, "one would expect those positions to be evenly distributed in the sky, particularly if these objects come from the Oort cloud; however, what we find is very different: a statistically significant accumulation of radiants. The pronounced over-density appears projected in the direction of the constellation of Gemini, which fits the close encounter with Scholz´s star."
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Scholz´s star is actually a binary system formed by a small red dwarf, with about 9% of the mass of the Sun, around which a much less bright and smaller brown dwarf orbits. It is likely that our ancestors saw its faint reddish light in the nights of prehistory.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
Global warming caused this
Soon they will announce the discovery of a 10th planet kicking the crap oout Oort Cloud objects. The alien natives living on it call it “Covfeve”.
You have been warned....
It was the hairy one!
70,000 years ago was just about the same time as a huge super volcano explosion near Java or Sumatra (I forget which).
Many scientists believe that human beings were almost wiped out at that time because the atmospheric dust reflected back much of the Earth’s sunlight.
The earth was already in an Ice Age at that point in time.
What do you supposed made the brown dwarf brown?
Nice find, be back later for the ping.
I find this lacking as a theory.
Which star? Even if it was 20 ly way, we would know the star, if by nothing else than by infrared.
Barnard’s Star, the fastest moving star nearby isn’t even moving that fast.
He needs to find an name the star before this goes any further.
Shouldn’t that be “vertically-challenged star of color?”
To do what they’re claiming, the relative speed of this star to the sun would have to be > 180,000 miles per hour. That’s hard to believe.
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
I’m not sure how an increase in vacuum generated by Obama would make a difference. I doubt the suck has decreased with his departure from office.
Thanks BenLurkin. Ping to the Catastrophism list, and I'll ping the old APoD list as well.
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Barnard’s star is moving significantly faster - 140km/s vs. 80km/s relative to the sun.
Scholz’ star is *tiny.* The entire binary system is < .15 the sun’s mass. The apparent magnitude of the star when it was @ .85LY from the sun was still 20 times too dim to be seen by the naked eye.
The math definitely works out - Scholz’ star would be 18.6ly way if it was moving away from Sol @ 80km/s relative velocity.
The objects were too low-mass to have any significant impact on the Oort Cloud, much less the Solar System. The binary system would have likely gained +/- .25km/s on approach to the sun, only to lose it again on its way out.
The John Matese keyword is well into a second page. Matese was primary author of a paper on comet focussing, which is the same phenomenon (by a different terminology) found in the new paper described in the article quoted above. Basically, the comets arriving from the outer Solar System tend to originate from a limited area of the sky, as if our Sun has a dark companion and/or there's a large, undiscovered planet out beyond Pluto.
Or perhaps just... 
...a lucky star?
Wouldn't that depend entirely on how close they got to any individual Oort cloud objects?
Would a 10 km near miss of a 1/8 solar mass, red-hot object affect a cryogenic ice ball's path?
Star was probably a Bible-toting gun clinger who listens to talk radio.
Is Scholz still a star?
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Scholz's star is actually a binary system formed by a small red dwarf, with about 9% of the mass of the Sun, around which a much less bright and smaller brown dwarf orbits.
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