2007-02-04 15:47:30 · 5 answers · asked by Rukidding 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Other stars like this continue to be called by their previous name, and the individual stars in the system are designated A, B, C, etc... descending in size.
Sirius and Alpha Centauri are two famous, bright stars that turned out to be multi-star systems too.
2007-02-04 18:15:43 · answer #1 · answered by ZeroByte 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It should be called the North Star. The small companion can only be seen in a telescope, so for an ordinary person looking up at the night sky it looks like one star. Astronomers with telescopes are not going to get confused.
But the first answer was pretty good :-).
2007-02-04 18:11:12 · answer #2 · answered by Bob 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They probably would be called Polaris and Polaris II. Has a pair, they would probably be called the Polaris star system.
2007-02-04 16:19:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's actually a trinary system. It should be called whatever the heck we decide to call it. Names are human inventions anyway, so who cares?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris
2007-02-04 16:35:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Polaris and SkiDoo
2007-02-04 15:54:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋