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Enola Straight
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Figure 8 orbit

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Is it possible for a planet to have a figure 8 orbit between two stars of a binary system?
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That's liable to be very unstable, though I can't prove that easily.
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Re: Figure 8 orbit

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Try looking through these.

http://burtleburtle.net/bob/physics/binary.html
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