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Incorrect dates for close stellar approaches

This is a very nice looking graphic, but several of the close stellar approaches have incorrect dates (thousands rather than millions of years). The close approach of Gliese 710 is estimated to occur in 1.29 million years, not 1286. The close approach of HD 7977 occurred an estimated 2.795 million years ago, not 2795. I believe that what happened is that the artist looked at this list of past and future encounters on Wikipedia and missed that the date of closest approach is in units of thousands of years (i.e. an entry of 1286 is 1286*1000 years).--Physdragon (talk) 01:25, 12 February 2022 (UTC)