An interstellar visitor may have changed the course of 4 solar system planets, study suggests

Interstellar visitor may have scrambled our solar system

The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun as the orbit of Mars.

Study suggests an interstellar visitor may have changed the course...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course. A planet-size object that possibly once visited the solar system may have permanently changed our cosmic neighborhood by warping the orbits of the four outer planets, a new study suggests. The findings may shed light on why these planets' paths have cert…

A cosmic object the size of a planet would have passed through the Solar System and permanently modified the orbits of four planets, according to a new study not yet published in peer-review, based on simulations carried out...

Alien Cosmic Visitor Might Have Completely Rearranged Our Solar System, Study Finds

Scientists have claimed that an interstellar visitor, much larger than any celestial body in our solar system, might have dramatically altered the orbits of the planets. The research, yet to be peer-reviewed but published in the arXiv preprint database, posits that this cosmic intruder, possibly eight times the mass of Jupiter, passed very close to where Mars orbits today, potentially affecting the orbits of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.…

An interstellar visitor may have changed the course of 4 solar system planets, study suggests

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

A cosmic object the size of a planet would have passed through the Solar System and permanently altered the orbits of four planets, according to a new peer-reviewed study based on computer simulations, Live Science reported on Sunday.