ALPHA CENTAURI HO!!!!!
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2 posted on
06/04/2007 6:41:13 PM PDT by
KevinDavis
(Mitt Romney 08)
To: KevinDavis
Nappy headed Alpha Centauri ho.
3 posted on
06/04/2007 6:49:00 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
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7 posted on
06/05/2007 10:27:49 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(When I played baseball, I wondered why the ball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.)
To: KevinDavis
There is a minor problem with a world attempting an earth-like orbit around either of the two stars in th Alpha Centauri system. If the worlds are close together, the planets will orbit them as if they were just one big star (Lucas came pretty close in his depiction of Tatooine in Star Wars). If the worlds are far apart, the planets will orbit either one or the other, and the other star will not have much gravitational influence on the planets. In the case of Alpha Centauri, the stars are about 23 astronomical units apart. They would tend to disrupt the orbits of each other's planets.
8 posted on
06/05/2007 4:28:21 PM PDT by
jmcenanly
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