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- adjective astronomy Describing an
orbit around abinary star - adjective astronomy Describing a
celestial body with such an orbit
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Examples
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Further study showed that the third body popped up time and again as it circled both stars in what is known as a circumbinary orbit.
News - latimes.com 2011
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In the Light of Two Suns - This artist's concept illustrates Kepler-16b, the first planet known to definitively orbit two stars -- what's called a circumbinary planet.
SETI Institute: First Planet Orbiting Two Stars Discovered by the NASA Kepler Spacecraft SETI Institute 2011
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In the Light of Two Suns - This artist's concept illustrates Kepler-16b, the first planet known to definitively orbit two stars -- what's called a circumbinary planet.
SETI Institute: First Planet Orbiting Two Stars Discovered by the NASA Kepler Spacecraft SETI Institute 2011
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Worlds that orbit around two stars, known as circumbinary planets, had been hinted at before.
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Worlds that orbit around two stars, known as circumbinary planets, had been hinted at before.
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In the story -- in a hypothetical galaxy far, far away, -- a circumbinary planet's double sunset was first brought to the screen.
SETI Institute: First Planet Orbiting Two Stars Discovered by the NASA Kepler Spacecraft SETI Institute 2011
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The public's vision of circumbinary planets thus goes back decades.
SETI Institute: First Planet Orbiting Two Stars Discovered by the NASA Kepler Spacecraft SETI Institute 2011
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In the story -- in a hypothetical galaxy far, far away, -- a circumbinary planet's double sunset was first brought to the screen.
SETI Institute: First Planet Orbiting Two Stars Discovered by the NASA Kepler Spacecraft SETI Institute 2011
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The discovery that such "circumbinary" planets can exist increases the likelihood of success of the Kepler Mission, which is to detect the first habitable; i.e., Earthlike, planets around other stars.
SETI Institute: First Planet Orbiting Two Stars Discovered by the NASA Kepler Spacecraft SETI Institute 2011
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The public's vision of circumbinary planets thus goes back decades.
SETI Institute: First Planet Orbiting Two Stars Discovered by the NASA Kepler Spacecraft SETI Institute 2011
qroqqa commented on the word circumbinary
circling a binary star: used of a planet or protoplanetary accretion disk
August 27, 2008