Orange Dwarf Star Set to Smash into The Solar System

I need to recommend Astronomy Cast to anyone interested in this stuff, simply because it's <i>so</i> good. They cover individual astronomy topics in 30 minute shows.<p>There's an episode all about the Oort Cloud and the interstellar medium (the regions Gilese would be skirting past) in <a href="http://www.astronomycast.com/astronomy/episode-65-the-end-of-our-tour-through-the-solar-system/" rel="nofollow">http://www.astronomycast.com/astronomy/episode-65-the-end-of...</a><p>And if Gilese's ability to send a ton of comets into the inner Solar System scares you, you might want to miss the "Death From The Skies" episode where they cover all of the myriad of ways we could get wiped out in way less than 1 million years ;-) <a href="http://www.astronomycast.com/people/interviews/ep-112-death-from-the-skies-interview-with-phil-plait/" rel="nofollow">http://www.astronomycast.com/people/interviews/ep-112-death-...</a>

Orange Dwarfs are similar to our Sun and may be good candidates for life sustaining planets. This might be a good opportunity to explore extra-solar planets for life or even seed that system with life or similarly organized systems. Then we would have two systems awaiting the next fly by and so on....

Someone needs to apprise Bruce Willis of this situation.

... sometime over the next 1.5 million years.<p>Probably.