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The Nature News article says: "Because Scholz’s star is puny and sped by quickly, it would have had a negligible impact on the Oort cloud, Mamajek notes. And an
by kryptiskt 12y ago
The Nature News article says:
"Because Scholz’s star is puny and sped by quickly, it would have had a negligible impact on the Oort cloud, Mamajek notes. And any comets that the star might have sent hurtling towards the inner Solar System will not arrive for another few hundred thousand years, says Tremaine."
http://www.nature.com/news/star-buzzed-solar-system-during-human-prehistory-1.16958?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews http://www.nature.com/news/star-buzzed-solar-system-during-h...
- mkempe 12y agoSo the claim that the passage of the star had negligible impact on the Oort cloud (for life on Earth) is an untestable hypothesis.