Bloodworth
Orbinoob
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Ok, here's the deal. I've been reading (and watching) the "game of thrones" series, and the first thing that came to mind was "WTF kind of orbit does this planet have to have the sort of seasonal cycle it does!?"
Is it within our ability here to try and figure out what kind of orbit this planet has or if such an orbit is even possible? The only thing I can imagine is that it has sort of a figure 8 orbit around an orbiting binary star system, but I don't have the math or astrophysics knowledge to even ATTEMPT to try and back that up. So I hand the question over to your fertile imaginations and more mathematically inclined minds.
Is it within our ability here to try and figure out what kind of orbit this planet has or if such an orbit is even possible? The only thing I can imagine is that it has sort of a figure 8 orbit around an orbiting binary star system, but I don't have the math or astrophysics knowledge to even ATTEMPT to try and back that up. So I hand the question over to your fertile imaginations and more mathematically inclined minds.