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Triple-sun Hot Jupiter discovered

  • Thread starter Thread starter Malenfant
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Isn't this the system where the "Pitch Black" incident occurred?
 
No just checked it had 3, a blue on one side and a close pair red and orange on the other.

I think Castor or Pollux (can't remember which) has 6 stars in the system.
 
Funny, it felt like more... ;)

Hmm, maybe I'm thinking of Asimov's "Nightfall"?

And yes, it's Castor that has 6.
 
Very interesting. It does give rise to imagination about what life in such a system would be like where would the habitable area be?
 
This is really fascinating subject matter. I was recently browsing a site, which may or may not be well known here:
http://www.extrasolar.net/

This inspired some thought, as inner zone jovians are apparently much more common than Traveller imagined. Since the TNE book description of gas giants in relation to the UWP makes no mention of brown dwarfs et al, I am considering making the gas giant column in the UWP include only those jovians where fuel skimming is possible. So a system with a "0" in the gas giants column may actually contain a jovian whose temperature and/or pressure is far too high for refuelling, such as Osiris at HD 209458.
 
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