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13. At the scale of the Solar System its orbital behavior would be determined basically....

Thu Dec 12, 2024, 01:24 AM

Dec 2024

.... by its center of mass, not not its shape or attitude, so it would actually be rather standard. However, it seems to be composed of two objects that came together rather slowly, so that process, orbiting each other, so to speak, would have been pretty interesting.

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Now that is strange. love_katz Dec 2024 #12

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K&R. Thanx for posting! JohnnyRingo Dec 2024 #2

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