knudsen (04/02/83)
(This is a semi-repeat of an earlier posting; we had some netnews troubles here). What are the possibilities of suns-&-planets systems where there are two or more suns? Can there be stable planetary orbits around binary starts? Can there be ternary, N-ary, ... stars? Can you have systems where a planet's inhabitants experience total darkness only once per 1000 years (define years), ie, the suns never all set.... ? Given the latest Voyager discoveries about Jupiter's and Saturn's moons and their interactions, almost nothing would surprise me now. To get something like "The Dark Crystal" planet you really should have the suns go around the planet, but that's about 500 years obsolete, tho could be done with a VERY massive planet and dwarf stars, I guess. Any takers? mike k
bhayes (04/05/83)
#R:ihnss:-149400:sri-unix:12900001:000:208 sri-unix!bhayes Apr 4 21:33:00 1983 Hmm... How about a binary star with planets at L4 and L5? Shouldn't be any problems... Days are twice as long as nights, you could have several planets in orbit at each point. -barry bhayes@sri-unix