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Anyone else having truble with orbits around multible stars?
« on: October 23, 2013, 07:58:10 AM »
I'm trying to get a stable orbit around 2 sunlike stars, and even multiple stars.

Anyone who is trying to do that? I've succeeded with sunlike stars with a low mass Companion + WR and O types with B, A F, etc. :P

Does anyone have a tip on how to make stable orbits around 2 or more stars?

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Re: Anyone else having truble with orbits around multible stars?
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2013, 08:34:26 PM »
Uhh the thing is that even in real life these kind of orbits are unstable. You can try to Put the two stars orbiting each other really close together and put a planet far from both of them.

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Re: Anyone else having truble with orbits around multible stars?
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2013, 08:03:19 AM »
You have to make the planet orbit the barycenter.

Uhh the thing is that even in real life these kind of orbits are unstable. You can try to Put the two stars orbiting each other really close together and put a planet far from both of them.

And yet we are finding solar systems around close binaries.

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Re: Anyone else having truble with orbits around multible stars?
« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2013, 09:05:23 PM »
You have to make the planet orbit the barycenter.

Uhh the thing is that even in real life these kind of orbits are unstable. You can try to Put the two stars orbiting each other really close together and put a planet far from both of them.

And yet we are finding solar systems around close binaries.

Or the NASA Kepler site; it's really cool.