Trent Shipley wrote: > >>> Good. So you do not care that the Alpha Centuri colony is Class-A, or >>> are you proposing that is it Class-B? >> >> It could be anything. Probably a world in _far_ worse shape than >> any other, but not a dead world like Mars or Venus. >> >>> Please tell me more about the Alpha Centuri colony -- or at least more >>> about our current knowledge on the Alpha Centuri system. >> >> A double-star system, where one is Sunlike, the other smaller than >> the Sun, but both could have Earth-like planets in the ecologically >> viable zone. >> >> Proxima, the third star, is so far away and so small that it doesn't >> count. > > It's going around the Sun-like star. What is the star's name? What is the > other part of the double star? Is it close enough to influence climate on > our new colony? > Ok, the _technical_ names of the stars that make up the Alpha Centauri system are Alpha Centauri A [the Sun-like star], Alpha Centauri B [almost Sun-like, but smaller; it's still in the spectral class that usually is considered fit to have Earth-like planets] and Alpha Centauri C aka Proxima Centauri [a red dwarf, so far away from A and B that we don't know if it's gravitationally bound to them or not. I would guess that it's _not_ bound to them]
The A+B pair is sufficiently far away not to influence the climate, but bright enough to lighten the night sky in such a way that the observation of stars would be difficult [imagine something brighter than the Moon but pointwise like Venus] > It's your baby. > > Give it a name -- Portuguese maybe (or nonsense derived from Portuguese). > Ah, I don't have enought creativity to make up things! :-) Alberto Monteiro the creativity challenged _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
