Quirinus System
QUIRINUS BINARY SYSTEM From Bravo Fleet, the free encyclopedia This article is about the binary star system and its planetary satellites in Velorum space.
ORIGIN THEORY Observation of other systems consisting of binary stars supports the theory that binaries develop through the fragmentation of charged molecular bonds during the formation of a stellar object. This binary system was formed about 6.64 billion years ago beginning as small clouds of stars and dust swirling through space. Scientists theorize a dying pulsar was devoured by a black hole which resulted in an explosion that created a protostar system. As the materials combined they began to form the binding elements that would become planets. As the system began to settle into a single star system, a rouge object was caught by gravitational forces. This sent the entire system spinning with resulting tidal forces that caused rotational chaos. Materials swirled in various directions colliding with others. It took about a billion years for the two stellar objects to fall into a rhythm that created a stabilizing magnetic field. Similar to other star systems, heavy rocky material was pulled toward the center and lighter elemental material moved further away. Planets were born and destroyed until their defined orbits were established. Vulcan and Federation scientists who study astrophysics consider this to be a Level 3, P system. That is to say that a small protostar orbits a larger object with a denser mass while planets orbit the two objects as they would a large single star.
QUIRINUS SYSTEM Two stars called Quirinus A, a tiny white Dwarf, and Quirinus B an L-type star, are gravitationally bound. The overall structure of the charted regions consists of five planets and a belt of rocky asteroids most likely formed over three million years ago when tidal gravitational forces pulled a planet apart.
The first planet in the Quirinus System is a barren rock with no natural satellites. Its orbit takes 60 Earth days. Geological features consist of fissures created by flowing magma from early volcanic activity but are not geologically active. A small nickel-carbon core creates a weak magnetic field but there is no atmosphere. The surface of the planet is blasted with tremendous cosmic energies by solar winds that heat and cool the planet. Temperatures range from -150 °C to well over 500 °C.