Rogue Planet Safely Passes by Solar System: For most residents of the Solar System, this headline was a relief. They could relax and go back to their normal lives. For those in the Space Agencies of the human home-world, it was just the opposite-cause for frantic activity. Although it might be hundreds of years before humans could visit a world from another solar system, here was one that had come to visit us. By good fortune, this discovery was made just after the United States had finished its testing of a new kind of ...
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Rogue Planet Safely Passes by Solar System: For most residents of the Solar System, this headline was a relief. They could relax and go back to their normal lives. For those in the Space Agencies of the human home-world, it was just the opposite-cause for frantic activity. Although it might be hundreds of years before humans could visit a world from another solar system, here was one that had come to visit us. By good fortune, this discovery was made just after the United States had finished its testing of a new kind of space-exploration vehicle, the first that would be able to chase and catch the interstellar vagabond before it was gone. A crew from the major space powers of Earth was prepared, and set out for the unknown planet. Would a world from another system be like the worlds that orbit our Sun?What surprises would they find?Would everybody come back?
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