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To: Red Badger
It is not obvious to me how you get a stable orbiting planet in a three star system. Look up the 3-Body Problem on Google.

For anyone who is interested there is a pretty good SF novel about a planet with 3 suns that I recently read. HERE is the link to the Amazon page.


6 posted on 04/01/2016 1:30:12 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: InterceptPoint

If Jupiter were 10 times as massive and orbited 10 times further out, it would make us a binary system, but the influence gravity wise on us would be roughly the same,

So as long as the secondary suns are far enough away it is fine.


8 posted on 04/01/2016 1:34:11 PM PDT by GraceG (The election doesn't pick the next president, it is an audition for "American Emperor"...)
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To: InterceptPoint

In Asimov’s novel, Nightfall (Was a movie also), The planet in question has constant daylight, for roughly 2000 years at a stretch. THEN comes an eclipse, when NO SUNS are visible! Since it was constant daylight, the people of the planet never saw any other stars or even thought there were any other places in their universe. The mass hysteria every 2000 years would destroy their civilization by burning everything they could get their hands on to have LIGHT! Then the cycle would repeat itself.................................


18 posted on 04/01/2016 2:05:42 PM PDT by Red Badger (The Left doesn't like him and the Right doesn't like him, so he must be the right guy for the job...)
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