NASA Detects Planet Dancing With a Pair of Stars

NASA Detects Planet Dancing With a Pair of Stars
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/sc...er=rss&emc=rss

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The official name of the new planet is Kepler 16b, but astronomers are
already referring to it informally as Tatooine, after the home planet of
Luke and Anakin Skywalker in the George Lucas ?Star Wars? movies, which also
had two suns.
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On 15/09/2011 3:06 PM, Jan Panteltje wrote:
NASA Detects Planet Dancing With a Pair of Stars
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/sc...er=rss&emc=rss

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The official name of the new planet is Kepler 16b, but astronomers are
already referring to it informally as Tatooine, after the home planet of
Luke and Anakin Skywalker in the George Lucas ?Star Wars? movies, which also
had two suns.
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Wow! I hope they make Tatooine the official name, what have Greek
mythological figures got over modern mythological figures?

And secondly, another theory down the drain! That theory being that
planets cannot possibly orbit two stars at once, because the
gravitational field of both stars would make the planet's orbit unstable
and bounce it right out of the system.

Yousuf Khan