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Two planets share one orbit.

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Sat, 2011-02-26 16:43
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icekatze icekatze's picture
Two planets share one orbit.
hi hi A friend clued me in to this recent discovery. Might make a neat gatecrashing setting. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20160-two-planets-found-sharing-on...
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Mon, 2011-04-11 06:46
xPeregrine xPeregrine's picture
Re: Two planets share one orbit.
If you liked that, Pluto is in a tidally locked orbit with one of its moons, Charon (which is half the size of Pluto.) The two orbit around a shared point in space instead of Charon orbiting Pluto. The Kepler data is definitely exciting, though.
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