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

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

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.