While reading up articles about our Sun, Earth and moon, I came across a recent discovery where it is reported that there is a planet that orbits two suns. It’s difficult to understand how that works, but after putting it in my mind for a while, there is a way of understanding about their planetary gravitational pull that potentially makes their rotation possible, and continues to maintain that.
The planet is called Kepler-16b. One of the first major report of this is on Nasa web site. This type of planet is called circumbinary, a planet that has to suns in its “centre” of orbit. This planet traverses the first sun, and then the second sun, and back again. Nasa also has a video to illustrate this, and cannot resist linking it to Star Wars.
It is incredible when we are so used to a way of being, our earth orbiting a single sun, that our way of thinking (our thought DNA) is so rooted in this aspect of our existence.
There are debates about Pluto as part of our solar system. But Pluto is not so remotely different from other planets in this system that it should be excluded. Our scientific progress is to the extent that we believe we could survive on planets such as our moon, and Mars. Obviously, with a tremendous amount of adjustment. However, the point is that we are making endeavours to ask what do we need to survive in such a such planet?
There is realisation that composition of planets are at the extreme, but their materials are not too much different planets to planets. If we device a way to survive for a considerable time period in one planet, that approach could be replicated to a large extent to be used in another planet.
This is an incredibly positive thought. It will take a number of major breakthroughs for routine planetary travels.
