A passing star could send dispersed planets
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The stars whistling by our solar system could cause more ravages than what astronomers only thought it, from the sending of Pluto's orbit to force the mercury to fly in the sun – or even to catastrophically modify the orbit and the climate of the earth. The overall risk of these events is still low, but the greatest influence of passing stars means that events like these can be common in other planetary systems.
Although the planets' orbits are formerly considered to be predictable and immutable that on watchmakers, modern astronomers have discovered that on long time scales, they are …
