RE: (TFT) Wacky star systems

[Pasha and Rick Smith <pnrsmith@istar.ca>]

Yes,
	I believe that Proxima would have a
path that would take it a bit over a million
years to complete a cycle in the night sky.

	You could test the record keeping
/ orginization of cultures by seeing if they
noticed the movement and how accurate it
would be.

	Rick

On Thursday, August 30, 2001 5:50 PM, casliber@ozemail.com.au 
[SMTP:casliber@ozemail.com.au] wrote:
> Now Rick,
> consider this - alpha centauri is a triple star system composed of a. c. 
A, which is almost identical to our sun (yellow dwarf), a.c. B an orange 
star slightly smaller and dimmer, and Proxima, which is far away and 
rotates around the other 2 every 1 million years or so (and is closer to 
our solar system by 0.1 light years).
>
> I guess a wide double star system is a possiblity for a plante, where the 
planet rotated around one star (which would be its sun) and the other star 
would be much further away and behave much like a very bright 'moon', or 
red in the case of Proxima centauri.
>
> Also worth considering are older globular star clusters full of yellow 
stars, maybe one of them has planets with no nighttime as such
> Cas
>
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