Thanks for posting, it was well done. I was looking into the percentage of stars that are in binary or triple systems, and came up with a few answers. This one sums it up well:
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The Question
(Submitted April 02, 1998)
What percentage of the stars are binary systems?
The Answer
Somebody once said that "2 out of every 3 stars are in a binary". Seriously, the fraction is very high, but it's difficult to be precise, because it's difficult to prove that a certain star is definitely single. Of the stars nearest to the Sun, about half are known to be in multiple systems.
Koji Mukai
for Ask an Astrophysicist
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http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/980402c.htmlThis post was edited by Torm1 on Feb 26 2012 02:57pm