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harbourwall t1_irw4u2m wrote

Reply to comment by LevelPegging in The vast majority of the 150-400 billion stars in the Milky Way haven't been directly detected. Alpha Centauri is the nearest known star to Sol. What is the probability that there are nearer stars that remain undiscovered? by [deleted]

> Scholz's star

Can we tell if it has any satellites, or grabbed any out of the Oort cloud as it passed?

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LevelPegging t1_irw6o3q wrote

I believe its impossible to tell whether it has its own satellites however I imagine it would have picked up something in its gravitational pull. It certainly would have flung a few rocks towards the inner solar system but it would take a million plus years before it reached the inner planets and become detectable.

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