(urth) grumble at wolfe comment made attached to guardianarticle

[David Stockhoff]

It's a stumper. Perhaps we know more about the planets of FHOC, and this 
would shed some light on what Wolfe considers possible. ???

On 2/8/2011 8:47 PM, Jack Smith wrote:
> "BTW, is there a consensus on the exact relation of the planets Blue 
> and Green? Do they orbit one another as a single system, or do they 
> orbit the sun on opposite sides, as do Earth and Gor?"
>
> They can't orbit each other or orbit on opposite sides of the sun 
> because Blue and Green  are farther apart and then get closer at 
> conjunction.  Conjunction occurs every 6 years (OBW, Ch 7), and Blue's 
> year seems to be about the same as a year on the Whorl.
>
> I'm not sure how Blue and Green move to produce this conjunction.  If 
> they are about the same distance from the sun but in different orbital 
> planes, they could at times be closer or more distant but conjunction 
> would occur twice a year.  Perhaps Blue's orbit is circular and 
> Green's is more eliptical, resulting in the 6 year interval, but I 
> haven't been able to figure how this would work.
>
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:06 PM, David Stockhoff 
> <dstockhoff at verizon.net <mailto:dstockhoff at verizon.net>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     BTW, is there a consensus on the exact relation of the planets
>     Blue and Green? Do they orbit one another as a single system, or
>     do they orbit the sun on opposite sides, as do Earth and Gor?
>
>


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