Rebel starts

[Valiant Dancer]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6339884/

Question: Could this resurrect the Nemesis theory?

[iFire]

Prolly could... but alas... I think I beat you (by a day) to the punch on this topic (http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=17265)

One question though... when is this happening?:

A star named Gliese 710, found by Hipparcos and reported in 1999, will pass within 1 light-year of the sun. That puts it some 70,000 times the distance from Earth to the sun, on the very fringes of our solar system where icy objects are thought to roam in what's known as the Oort Cloud. Such stellar close calls in the past are thought to have rerouted comets from the Oort Cloud toward the inner solar system, where some hit Earth.

[eburacum45]

According to SolStation the closest approach is in 1.4 million years...

don't wait up.

http://www.solstation.com/stars2/gl710.htm

[iFire]

Dang. I was hoping it would be in my lifetime... Yay for cryogenics? :P

[Valiant Dancer]

Prolly could... but alas... I think I beat you (by a day) to the punch on this topic (http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=17265)

One question though... when is this happening?:

A star named Gliese 710, found by Hipparcos and reported in 1999, will pass within 1 light-year of the sun. That puts it some 70,000 times the distance from Earth to the sun, on the very fringes of our solar system where icy objects are thought to roam in what's known as the Oort Cloud. Such stellar close calls in the past are thought to have rerouted comets from the Oort Cloud toward the inner solar system, where some hit Earth.

Rats, you did. I was looking for something like this in the PX board and here but evidentally didn't look hard enough.