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Re:Rare system of five stars discovered by Someone on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @07:57PM (#9855408)
One more and a planet to go (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall_(Asimov_short_story_..., https://www.uni.edu/morgans/astro/course/nightfall.pdf)
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Re:Rare system of five stars discovered by yodon on Thursday July 09, 2015 @01:21AM (#9856279)
Or it could be the Pupetteer migration fleet! (yes, Larry Niven did garble a 2n-body Klemperer rosette into a 5-body Kemplerer rosette[1])

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klemperer_rosette#Misuse_and_m...

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Re:Rare system of five stars discovered by golergka on Thursday July 09, 2015 @08:00AM (#9857337)
Also, this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem
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Re:Rare system of five stars discovered by antimagic on Thursday July 09, 2015 @06:08AM (#9857032)
Yup, as soon as I saw the title I thought of Nightfall - probably my all-time favourite Asimov story :)
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