Unique and Strange Solar Systems

Various interesting Solar systems are unstable, but since you are writing SciFi, perhaps you can ignore this problem or dream up some reason for the such systems to be stable.

Hint: System was built as an experiment by an ancient super-intelligent species who abandoned the system a billion or so years in the past. The designers provided a mechanism which kept the system stable. Intelligent life evolved after their departure.

To me a fascinating solar system might be called a Yo-Yo system.

Imagine 3 (or more) equal mass stars chasing each other in a circular orbit in the XY-Plane of a Cartesian coordinate system. Then imagine a planet moving up & down the Z-Axis of the coordinate system.

The planetary motion is similar to that of a yo-yo.

 

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Why don't w try a new solar sytem in the next star.

 

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I would, but I figure everyone tries alpha centarui, heck even the James Cameron movie used it, worse in 10 years or less we will know if there are any terrestrial planets

 

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interesting, i would think we know more about other planets, I know there are even planets better than earth, but those are probably in another galaxy quadrillions of miles away. But we know a lot but it's classified information.

 

This is the science side of SciForums. Please stop posting nonsense.

 

another interesting theory is that in order to find the planet they have to find the light to show it, but in all these years just being able to find a few hundred planets out of our solar system is just suspicous, and the person who sayed what I'm saying is nonsense explain how you came about saying that...

 

You may believe there are, but you don't know.

Rubbish.

 

please evryone refrain from irritating others.

 

Take your own advice, and stop posting irritating nonsense then.

 

Here look:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080307121613.htm

Coauthor Debra Fischer of San Francisco State University is leading an observational program to intensively monitor Alpha Centauri A and B using the 1.5-meter telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. The researchers hope to detect real planets similar to the ones that emerged in the computer simulations.

So we will know in a few years if alpha centauri has terrestrial planets, and being the closest star system (excluding proxima centauri which may or may not be part of the centauri system) if earth size planets are found its going to fuel a lot of interest, interest for more high power telescopes to learn more about these planets and intrest in traveling there.

 

Thanks for the link electricfetus.

 

Here is another:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/31/AR2009053102082.html

 

Here are some of the weirder worlds I've made up for Orion's Arm;
Perdix, a planet in a highly eccentric orbit
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4ac0ad22a9c89

Silenus, a planet with a large axial tilt
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4ac1fabd2c3c0

Bullseye, a tidally locked world
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4922e9afcd478

Anomie, a planet in orbit around a gas giant
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/48f9ecc17d772

Sisyphos, a chthonian world (depleted gas giant core)
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/48ec992cac979

 

wow, interesting, thanks for the links.