"Citizen Scientists Discover A Strange Planet In Four-Star System"

[shnozzola]

The universe continues to surprise us. Two citizen scientists have discovered a very rare world: A planet that orbits two stars and has a second pair of stars revolving around it.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/10/15/162952704/citizen-scientists-discover-a-strange-planet-in-four-star-system

[Nick]

Damn, I bet it is the planet Kolob.

[Graybeard]

Has anyone worked out what its orbit looks like?

[Nam]

Is that Melmac?

-Nam

[EV]

I can't even begin to imagine the odd gravitational effects that planet must experience.

Thanks for sharing, that's really quite fascinating.

[Nick]

I can't even begin to imagine the odd gravitational effects that planet must experience.

Thanks for sharing, that's really quite fascinating.

Gravity is just a theory.

[Nam]

I guess hell has been shown to exist. It's not below us, it's a planet with 2 suns.



-Nam

[Nick]

What # of SPF do you need for that place?

[Nam]

It's not the #, it's how much should be applied. I am thinking a ton a day keeps the suns away.

-Nam

[wright]

My little atheist mind boggles. Thanks, shnozzola.

Time to dust off the ol' Traveller roleplaying campaign and update it with some of the new discoveries like this. Daaanng, but the universe is an amazingly strange place.

[Nam]

^don't forget your truckload of sunscreen.

-Nam