A star passing close enough to the solar system can do considerable damage, including *ejecting entire planets into interstellar space*. Weird thing is, one of the planets most vulnerable to this is NOT the one you'd think.

scientificamerican.com/article

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This is very close to a plot point of Perihelion Summer.

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