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Robert Walker

Nemesis (hypothetical star)  was a hypothetical star orbiting our sun at a distance of 1.5 light years. Though it's been pretty much disproved (except just possibly as a very cold brown dwarf) - that's through searching for it, not through theory. So at least 1.5 light years is stable in theory for a star so surely for a planet also.

As for actual planets, this seems to be the exoplanet with the record of the most distant orbit from its star, with a semimajor axis of 1,168 au (about 0.018 light years, 6.74 light days) and an orbital period of 33,081 years

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Robert Walker

Robert Walker

Writer of articles on Mars and Space issues - Software Developer of Tune Smithy, Bounce Metronome etc.
Studied at Wolfson College, Oxford
Lives in Isle of Mull
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