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Re:What If The Moon Were Replaced By Other Planets? by ndonnellan on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @09:21AM (#5945801)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5938999

Our neighborhood has a triple-star system!

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Re:What If The Moon Were Replaced By Other Planets? by aamar on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @09:56AM (#5946005)
That's a triple-planet system. Presumably millerm's asking about stable-orbit, habitable-zone planets in a multiple-star system, like Kepler 47: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/08/120829-new-p...
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Re:What If The Moon Were Replaced By Other Planets? by deletes on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @10:03AM (#5946068)
Nope, the system mentioned here [1] is a triple-star system. Read the first line [2].

[1]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5938999 [2]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_667

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Re:What If The Moon Were Replaced By Other Planets? by aamar on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @12:12PM (#5946929)
Thank you for the correction; apologies for my error.
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