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Re: Try to imagine this Solar System, please...

Date: Sun Nov 13 13:17:47 2005
Posted By: Peter Thejll, Staff, Solar-Terrestrial Physics,
Area of science: Astronomy
ID: 1130793505.As
Message:

Hi Devin,
I am sorry, but your solar system is DOOMED! Planets poised like that
between two stars are at an 'unstable equilibrium' and the slightest push
in one direction will cause them to be caught by one of the stars! If
circling much closer to one of the stars the planets do have a chance for a
while, but computer simulations of such systems show that most of the
systems die after some time with the planets either being catapulted into
deep space or by colission with one of the stars.


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