or just a ‘poof’?

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      Now I’m imagining the type of event that could cause a planet to move at such a significant percent of c that you could disrupt the sun with it. I don’t think we’re gonna get a planet moving that fast. I think we’d be limited to stellar core remnants to get that kick in velocity.

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        As it is, our entire solar system is orbiting at 514,000mph or about 1/1300th the speed of light relative to the center of the galaxy. And the Milky Way Galaxy is moving at about 1.3 million mph through the universe.

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        All I can think of is aliens. I can’t think of anything in nature that could get a planet moving that fast.

        Now a much more dense object like a mini black hole? That’s a more interesting question.

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        Could it go fast enough that it doesn’t have enough time to absorb significant amounts of heat and pops out the other side basically intact?

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        We are going to collide with the Andromeda galaxy maybe 1 billion years before the sun fizzles out. Something there with opposite galactic orbit from us could smack into our sun at over 700 km/s.

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            Absolutely! The odds are, as they say “astronomical”. That goes for all scenarios where a planet sized rock doots our sun in general.