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From: jps@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Jeff P Szczerbinski)
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Subject: Re: 2010
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Date: 24 Mar 88 04:41:06 GMT
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In article <8803081408.aa10335@note.nsf.gov> fbaube@NOTE.NSF.GOV (Fred Baube) writes:
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>> I don't think anybody really knows what a bi-solar system would do to
>> the planets, but I have a good feeling that it would make mars a hell
>> of a more desirable place to live.
>

I'm not all that knowledgable about physics and the theory behind
a double-star system but I would have to say that life as we know
it on Earth would either end or come to a very distinctive change.
Jupiter itself would be exerting a greater gravity.  Its orbit
would also change because of this and possibly orbits of many of the
others in the solar system.  Better to ask this question of someone
on sci.astro.

					Aloha,

						Jeff

Jeff Szczerbinski Univ. of Wisc. - Milwaukee -- Computer Services Division
jps@csd4.milw.wisc.edu                                     +1 414 332 3033
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