As was predicted by Isaac Asimov in his story 'Nightfall'.........................
Posted on 04/01/2016 1:19:58 PM PDT by Red Badger
As was predicted by Isaac Asimov in his story 'Nightfall'.........................
XO-Planet Ping!.........................
Riddick!
Thanks Red Badger.
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I recently learned that more star systems than not are actually double stars. Completely floored me.
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.
A tad bigger and Jupiter could have been ours :-)
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.
I’m not leaving Earth for anything less than a four star system.
I'm sure that's true. The problem is that a true 3 body system is still connected by some level of mutual attraction and, over time, lots of time, strange things can happen.
Take a look at THIS 3-BODY SIMULATION on YouTube.
Sector 001, Alpha Quadrant, K1V star with an absolute magnitude of 6.0. System of three planets, and an asteroid belt. The second of the three planets is class M planet Qo’noS
No wonder Praxis exploded!
This is great news for for sunbathers. Now they can tan both sides of their face and body at the same time!
Dang it, why do I always have to be the genius around here?
Send O there!
I’m wondering how they determined that the orbit is “stable”.
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.................................
Similar plot in the Three-Body Problem.
In Asimov’s novel there were SIX suns..............
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