A small star grazed our solar system 70,000 years ago

This article from last year says there’s the possibility of one really close call about every 50K years:

The stated danger here too is jarring more planetesimals loose, to become comets.

I still wonder if something has passed this solar system in its history that’s had enough mass or thrown off enough energy of various kinds to disturb the planets here in some way or other?

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