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Quote: Gliese 710 has the potential to perturb the Oort cloud in the outer Solar System, exerting enough force to send showers of comets into the inner Solar System for millions of years, triggering visibility of about ten naked-eye comets per year, and possibly causing an impact event.

Wild stuff!


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phkahler10/02/2024

And if it passes through our Oort cloud, we might be passing through its Oort cloud!