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24 Mar 2011, 8:19 pm

...(besides Earth) orbits the star Nu Octantis. The two stars (for it is a double) go one way--the brighter star's planet, the other way.

I blog about it here:

http://springtail.blogspot.com/2011_03_ ... 9861077548

I like making calculations about imaginary, or speculative, worlds. Usually (as i have learned) doing the math exhausts my impulse to write science fiction about that setting.

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24 Mar 2011, 9:40 pm

What? There's nothing on that link but a blank page.

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24 Mar 2011, 11:27 pm

scroll down, please.
(at one time i tried to set the blog up for ads; which didn't work, but now i'm too lazy to go back & figure out how much of that template can be safely removed.)

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28 Mar 2011, 9:13 am

So, does one star periodically get closer? I know all orbiting objects around stars have a perihelion, but I mean does one star get significantly closer?

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28 Mar 2011, 9:32 am

ShenLong wrote:

So, does one star periodically get closer? I know all orbiting objects around stars have a perihelion, but I mean does one star get significantly closer?

Both stars are in a Keplarian orbit with the center of gravity as the principle focus.

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