• Question: do you ever create really crazy planets just for fun even if they could never exist?

    Asked by Anna EM to Stefan on 20 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Stefan Lines

      Stefan Lines answered on 20 Nov 2014:


      Yes! Well, to be honest – they could still exist I suppose! Because my work is on planets in binary systems, I often try and get the planets to do a figure of 8 round the stars. I’m not sure this could happen in real life. It would be quite unstable I think. I also tried to form planets in two solar systems colliding with each other.

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