Researchers have determined that a star passing through our solar system changes Neptune’s orbit by only 0.1%, causing a pandemic.
Slight changes in the orbits of the outer planets can eventually cause other planets to collide or be completely freed from the solar system.
According to the monthly report from the Royal Astronomical Society, adjacent stars too close to our solar system can cause such chaotic events.
According to the simulations, the flyby stars only need to travel three times the distance from Neptune’s position between Earth and the Sun to destroy the planet.
A possible starting point for the instability of the solar system is Mercury, the smallest of the planets. Mercury’s perihelion (the closest point in a planet’s orbit around the Sun) moves about 1.5 degrees every 1,000 years. This is very close to the speed of Jupiter.
If the two sync up or resonate, there’s a 1 percent chance Mercury will be ejected from orbit and released from the solar system, or go on a future collision course with Venus, the Sun, and even Earth. 3-4 billion years.
Mercury is too close to the Sun to feel the effects of passing stars, but Neptune feels it, and the disturbance spreads throughout the solar system.
The impact of a 0.1% shift, equivalent to 4.5 million km in Neptune’s near-major axis, could spread to Earth and Mars in just 20 million years.
Of the 2,880 simulations run by the team, 960 had disturbances or disturbances that were too small to measure. Still, in four of them, Mercury hit Venus.
Of the remaining 1,920 models, 26 ended when the planet completely collided with or released Uranus, Neptune, or Mercury.
However, the team has estimated that it is highly unlikely that they will be close enough to the stars, so don’t panic just yet. Only 20 chances in the next 100 billion years.
Source: Metro
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