"Eric Chomko" <pne.chomko@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:1156534210.382300.191770@74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com...

| Not only a binary but an eclipsing binary which means that its
| magnitude changes depending the motion of smaller component. See:
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algol


Indeed it is, but are you a sheep or a scientist?
Tell me, what is the purpose of a newsgroup if all the sheep bleat
the same sound? Just to make silly jokes?
http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Algol/Algol.htm

What are you scared of, ridicule by sheep?

"Eric Chomko" <pne.chomko@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:1156534210.382300.191770@74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com...
|
| Sorcerer wrote:
| > "Eric Chomko" <pne.chomko@verizon.net> wrote in message
| > news:1156530114.814709.298510@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
| > |
| > | Sorcerer wrote:
| > | > "Eric Chomko" <pne.chomko@verizon.net> wrote in message
| > | > news:1156524071.960852.186330@74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com...
| > | > |
| > | > | William Elliot wrote:
| > | > | > On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Sorcerer wrote:
| > | > | > > | William Elliot wrote:
| > | > | > > | > On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Thomas Lee Elifritz wrote:
| > | > | > > | >
| > | > | > > | > > Pluto - The Tenth Planet From A Star Called The Sun
| > | > | > > | > >
| > | > | > > | > Don't knock it. It's the only double planet known in the
| > galaxy.
| > | > | > > |
| > | > | > > | Apart from Earth - Moon
| > | > | > >
| > | > | > > Barycentre Pluto-Charon above surface
| > | > | >
| > | > | > Thus double planet.
| > | > | >
| > | > | > > Barycentre Earth-Moon below surface
| > | > | > >
| > | > | > Thus planet and satellite.
| > | > |
| > | > | I agree with what you are saying but, what of the barycenter of
the
| > sun
| > | > | and Jupiter? It is above the surface of the Sun.
| > | >
| > | > So Jupiter and the Sun form a binary system, all other planets
| > | > are moons of the sun.
| > | >
| > | > This is impossible :
| > | > http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Algol/AlgolOrbit.gif
| > |
| > | That looks more like what Pluto and Charon are doing. The sun makes a
| > | small cricle every 12 years. A very small circle.
| >
| > Exactly right. But if it were taking 70 hours per circle Jupiter would
be
| > mighty close to the sun and the sun would still have to move in a
circle...
| > but then Jupiter would not be a gas giant, it would boil away and its
| > gravity would not be enough to hold it together.
|
| Hard to say exactly. At 70 hours one of those solar flairs could do
| lots of damage.

Why is that hard to say? You've just said it.

| Even Mercury at 88 days takes a beating from the sun.

You bet it does.

| I don't doubt
| that binary or multiple star systems of several stars have proximity
| limits in order to stay whole and still cohabitate. I'm sure well over
| half of all stellar systems consist of more than one star.

I doubt it strongly. Do you have any EVIDENCE to support your certainty?

Or just the conjecture of an 18-year-old kid in 1782 who was dead at
the age of 22?
When one sheep bleats "baa" the rest soon follow, don't they?

|
| > http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060807.html
| >
| >
| > | >
| > | > How much more massive would Jupiter have
| > | > to be to light up its own fuel like Sirius B?
| > | > http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001006.html
| > |
| > | According to this website 60 times its current mass:
| > | http://starryskies.com/articles/dln/1-02/jupiter.star.html
| > |
| > | That seems like a lot but when one considers that the moon is 1/81 of
| > | the earth's mass, it doesn't seem that much. Another way of looking at
| > | it is that if the moon was the size of Jupiter, then the earth would
be
| > | a star.
| >
| > Yes indeed. And the moon takes 28 days to orbit the Earth, not 3 days.
| > If it were the tides would be enormous, swamping entire continents.
| >
| > So... is Algol a binary?
|
| Only after you compile it. (Sorry, computer programming joke as Algol
| is also a computer language).
|
| Not only a binary but an eclipsing binary which means that its
| magnitude changes depending the motion of smaller component. See:
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algol


Indeed it is, but are you a sheep or a scientist?

Tell me, what is the purpose of a newsgroup if all the sheep bleat
the same sound? Just to make silly jokes?

http://www.androcles01.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Algol/Algol.htm

What are you scared of, ridicule by sheep?

Androcles