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Message 1643566 - Posted: 18 Feb 2015, 4:22:21 UTC
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one article: http://phys.org/news/2015-02-years.html

A red dwarf star, named Scholz's Star, was discovered about 1 year ago. After further analysis of its properties and modeling of its trajectory, a recently published paper concluded that Scholz's star had passed 0.8 ly from the sun 70,000 years ago. It passed through the outer Oort Cloud, but unlikely caused any events, such as turning an Oort object with a stable orbit into a comet. Scholz's star also has a brown dwarf companion, and is currently 20 ly away.
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Message 1643591 - Posted: 18 Feb 2015, 5:11:49 UTC

Can't edit now, but maybe it's not a binary star, since a brown dwarf isn't really a star.
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Message 1646286 - Posted: 25 Feb 2015, 7:58:46 UTC

We should definately prepare for a jump, if sthg like that occurs again...leap of faith! ;)


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