At 06:55 PM 20/02/00 -0800, Spike wrote:
>> A movie critic for the Emag "Salon" writes"
>>
>> >an unknown desert planet, where the combination of three suns means >that
>> night never falls.
>> EvMick@aol.com wrote:
>> and my bovine excretion monitor went off.
>> I've heard of binary systems....but a trinary?<sp?>
>
>Sure EvMick, in principle, why not? We could imagine a system
We don't need to *imagine* a system. The *closest* stars to us, other than
the sun, *are* a ternary system: Alpha Centauri A and B, and Proxima, all
locked neatly together. (The shadows might not be that exciting, Proxima is
a fair way off from the others and pretty dim.)
Damien
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