Demonic wrote:Talon1579 wrote:Actually, assuming that the planet orbits both sons in a figure of eight, it should be day constantly for about half the year and a normal day/night cycle the other half.
It would be significantly more complex than that actually.
However, its also practically impossible such an orbit would be stable (due to the necessity of passing through the L1 Lagrange point of the two stars, and there actually being some kind of mechanic for the planet to 'swap' orbits there).
It is far more likely than the planet would orbit the larger of the two stars, or the centre of gravity for both stars together.
But it is possible.
I read theres something in the magnitude of sextillions of stars out there and, after reading 'Death by Black Hole', he pointed out - not about binary systems - but because of the incredible number of stars out there even something that is incredibly rare as that, there may very well be thousands of stars that do have that characteristic, even though we may very well never discover a system like that. Unless it's in a galaxy far, far away...
And maybe it has Tusken raiders and Jedi farmboys. 
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