vorticity Wrote:Yes, surprisingly stable. Quoth wikipedia: "The orbits of planets b-g are nearly in resonance, having relative periods of approximately 24/24, 24/15, 24/9, 24/6, 24/4 and 24/3." They're all supposedly Earth-sized, meaning .76-1.13 R?, or "more Earth-sized than Mars is." The downside of all this stability and closeness to the star is that they're very likely tidally locked. Which should help your hack SF writers even more by making single biome planets!There's a slim chance that one of them could be in a higher-order resonance with the star, such as 3:2 - which would give it a day/night cycle. (There's an even slimmer chance that more than one of them could be in a higher-order resonance.)
Oh, and the system would be 28 days away at 500c (the FTL speed used by writers' fiat in Fenspace).
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