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Labeyrie

Important Communion of Worlds member-system

Canyon River
Image from Matt C. Johnson
The Canyon River on Labeyrie, with the two suns in the sky at maximum elongation

Star: JD 9492276-22
Spectral type: Kv5, Kv4
Constellation: Sculptor
Distance from Sol: 675 ly
Planet: Labeyrie
Radius: 6110
Type: Campian subtype.
Rotation period: 34.1 standard hours
Colonised: 3155

Important Empath world, a dry terrestial planet terraformed to habitability. The planet orbits its two close binary suns at a distance of 0.9 AU. The two suns are separated by a distance of 0.12 AU, and every 4.5 local days the two suns come together in the sky in the so-called 'hour of mingling'.

 
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Development Notes
Text by M. Alan Kazlev and Steve Bowers
Initially published on 03 December 2001.

 
 
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