1 Jason H.,
That's rather downright odd. Here I'd honestly contributed as to the
matter of an astronomy fact that Sirius-b was likely if not
astrophysics-101 somewhat required as once upon a time being a
red-giant, and lo and behold, gosh darn if it seems as though all of
the topic lights went out. Why the heck is that? or perhaps what's so
gosh darn taboo/nondisclosure about the Sirius star system?
http://www.solstation.com/stars/sirius2.htm
Hunt for Sirius C and Substellar Companions
According to Duchner and Brown (2000 preprint -- in postscript), three
analyses of the proper motion of Sirius found a perturbation in the
orbit of Sirius B with a period around six years (Ch. Volet, 1932;
Walbaum and Duvent, 1983; and Benest and Duvent, 1995). The analyses
did not resolve whether the perturbing body orbits Sirius A or B,
although dynamical simulations suggest that stable orbits exist around
both stars at circumstellar distances up to more than half the binary
system's closest separation of 8.1 AUs (Daniel Benest, 1989). Because
ancient astronomers believed that Sirius was red in color as late as
2,000 years ago, some investigators wonder if the system may have a
third stellar component, Sirius C, with about five percent of Sol's
mass that implies a spectral type M5-9 in a six-year elliptical orbit
around Sirius A (Benest and Duvent, 1995). A recent search for faint
companions using the Hubble Space Telescope found no supporting
evidence for a large Jupiter or brown dwarf sized object, although the
observed positions of Sirius AB -- Gl 244 AB -- differed from published
orbital elements (Schroeder et al, 2000).
http://www.tcnj.edu/~pfeiffer/AST261Chap3.html
4. The majority (about 80 t0 85%) of stars in the solar neighborhood
are binary stars.
Single stars like our sol are clearly within the minority.
http://www.siriusresearchgroup.com/articles/ogo3.shtml
The Sirius Research Group / Email ***@siriusresearchgroup.com
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Life upon Venus offers energy to burn, even though as such it will not
actually burn within such an O2 starved environment as having been
hosting a perfectly rational township of a community that includes a
bridge and a few of your standard rigid airships plus that nifty UFO
Park-n-Ride Tarmac:
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-town.htm
The ESA Russian/China LSE-CM/ISS (Lunar Space Elevator) as situated
within the ME-L1/EM-L2 zone
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/lunar-space-elevator.htm
Venus ETs, Earthly ETs plus a few other somewhat testy topics by; Brad
Guth / GASA-IEIS
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-topics.htm
BTW; I've come to realize that other life must have been possible upon
Venus, at least as of nearly 6 years ago when I'd first interpreted
upon one of so many radar images (especially of what the 36 look/pixel
of an 8-bit/pixel worth of roughly 225 m/pixel resolution), as to what
honestly looks quite community like, although there's also somewhat
other most interesting natural aspects from such images that doesn't
quite doesn't jive with the purely hot and nasty sort of roasting world
as having been artificially painted and otherwise infomercial hyped by
our MI5/NSA~NASA rusemasters that would like you to believe this is
entirely my own doings without having a shred of evidence nor having
made multiple efforts as to sharing with others from the very get-go.
Of course, I've since come to perceive that our NASA summarily sucks,
among other nastier if not despicable sorts of things.