David Hobby wrote:
>
> I'm confused by some of the wild speculations I've
>read on this thread. Are we all supposed to pretend that we
>have not read the book before?
>
Yes :-)
>
>> -Maia is "twenty-six months before her second birthday." This suggests
>> that a year on this planet is at least 26+ Earth months.
>> -The name of the sun is "Wengel." Anyone know if this correlates to a
>> known star?
>
> Again, these are answered later. The region around Wengel is
>described, and it becomes obvious that the star must be relatively
>far away from here...
>
Of course Wengel must be far away from Stratos-S; the only way
Stratos could have a stable and high-eccentric orbit inside a
binary system was with a (n):(n+1) resonance with the second
star, *but* there can be no "conjunction" when Stratos is at the
apogee [aphelium? apostratos-Sium?]. I knew the math to prove this,
but it's buried somewhere in my hourse, and it's long and complex.
Maybe we can postulate that the Stratos system *has* a Jovian
body that locks Stratos into this elliptic orbit?
BTW, I guesstimate Stratos-S to be a F0-type star, with about
1.7 Solar Masses; its apparent diameters from Stratos [mean
diameter] was about 52% of our Sun's diameter O:-)
Alberto Monteiro
