re: There goes another convenient fiction...

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phil — 4/4/2006 5:17:00 PM (archived)

I don't know why the accepted wisdom was that multiple stars couldn't have stable planetary orbits. In 1960's "Habitable Planets for Man" classic out of print book, Stephen Dole cited Shu-Su Huang's papers which analyzed multiple star stability zones and predicted stable planetary orbits with restricted criteria that made sense.

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Two Suns in The Sky: Stellar Multiplicity in Exoplanet Systems - ljk - 4/3/2006 2:36:01 PM
- There goes another convenient fiction... - nick hoffman - 4/4/2006 12:37:58 PM
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  - re: There goes another convenient fiction... - phil - 4/4/2006 5:17:00 PM
    - re: There goes another convenient fiction... - ljk - 4/4/2006 6:46:47 PM
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