On Friday 2004-01-16 07:49, Alberto Monteiro wrote: > 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
Fine. But at least pick a class for the lease. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
