  Early migration damped Neptune's eccentricity. Here, we assume that the
damped value was much smaller than the value observed today, and show that the
closest flyby of $\sim 0.1 \; \mathrm{M_{\odot}}$ star over $\sim 4.5
\mathrm{\; Gyr}$ in the field, at a distance of $\sim 10^3 \mathrm{\; AU}$
would explain the value of Neptune's eccentricity observed today.
