[pythian] Re: OFFTOPIC - Suns

  • From: Darryl Long <pythianproject@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pythian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 17:40:46 -0400

> They must teach things different on the other side of the planet.  I've not
> heard that before.

Well, they do have a different view of the solar system over there ;)

Anyway, Enrico is right, and so am I.  This page says it all:

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/solarsys/binary.html

Basically, most systems are binary, but any binary system is unlikely to 
have habitable planets.  Also, if Jupiter had been bigger, it would have 
becomes a star and we wouldn't exist!

Darryl


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