Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Hurtling Star On A Path To Clip Solar System

Heading our way (Image: ESO)

From New Scientist:

A star is hurtling towards us. It will almost certainly clip the outskirts of the solar system and send comets towards Earth – though not for a while.

Vadim Bobylev of the Pulkovo Observatory in St Petersburg, Russia, modelled the paths of neighbouring stars using data from the European Space Agency's Hipparcos satellite and from ground-based measurements of the speeds of stars.

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