From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Sun Feb 20 2000 - 19:55:04 MST
> A movie critic for the Emag "Salon" writes"
>
> >an unknown desert planet, where the combination of three suns means >that
> night never falls.
> EvMick@aol.com wrote:
> and my bovine excretion monitor went off.
> I've heard of binary systems....but a trinary?<sp?>
Sure EvMick, in principle, why not? We could imagine a system
where Jupiter and Saturn were large enough to sustain nuke fusion
could we not? There could still be stable orbits around the current
sun, around either the now-brilliant J or S, or around all three as our
outer planets now do. Of course, that still doesnt prevent nightfall.
Starting in May, we would see nightfall even if our current J and S
were brilliant suns. spike
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