"Pass" being a pretty generous term, coming within 1.7 light-years, or over 500 times farther than its lifetime distance from Earth/Sol to today. It's like dri

"Pass" being a pretty generous term, coming within 1.7 light-years, or over 500 times farther than its lifetime distance from Earth/Sol to today. It's like driving from New York to San Francisco and calling some spot in Kansas "passing the moon". All of the Solar System outbound spacecraft aren't expected to pass within, say, the planetary disc range of any known stars at any calculable future time. Space is really freakin empty.