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originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: moebius
Ah, so at no time did these objects actually pass through the Solar System proper. They never came close to, leave alone actually entered the Heliosphere.
Suggesting that a thing has passed through our Solar System, just because it mingled with the Oort cloud a bit, is like suggesting that someone who stumbled into your back yard while drunk, and never made it a foot past the fence before turning around and backing off, is a home invader.
originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: moebius
Ah, so at no time did these objects actually pass through the Solar System proper. They never came close to, leave alone actually entered the Heliosphere.
Suggesting that a thing has passed through our Solar System, just because it mingled with the Oort cloud a bit, is like suggesting that someone who stumbled into your back yard while drunk, and never made it a foot past the fence before turning around and backing off, is a home invader.
I was pondering this last night in my half sleep state and a question was asked....
Why would this object push objects out of the oort cloud? Wouldn't their gravity pull the objects towards them or even capture them?
originally posted by: norhoc
a reply to: Fowlerstoad
Hate to burst your bubble, but if the system did what the animation shows then no one would have seen the star system. Think about it, you can not see the Orrt cloud can you and the star system barely touched the Oort cloud
Now two astronomers from the Complutense University of Madrid, the brothers Carlos and Raul 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.
"Using numerical simulations we have calculated the radiants or positions in the sky from which all these hyperbolic objects seem to come," explains Carlos de la Fuente Marcos, who together with the other coauthors publishes the results in the MNRAS Letters journal.
"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."
originally posted by: Blue Shift
People forgetting just how big space really is.
The ice core data suggests that it had little or no effect on Earth.
The long count is what I've gone by as the Tibetan one was inadequate in scope, width, and breadth as path.