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Old August 19th 06, 04:02 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Brian Tung[_1_]
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Default Not quite a star, but almost

Chris L Peterson wrote:
If this object is in a system with a normal hydrogen fusor, does the
system go from a double star system to a single star system, and the
object from a star to a planet? What about any large moons that orbit
it? Are they planets because the object was a fusor "at one point in its
lifetime"? Maybe they were planets and then became moons once the
deuterium fusion stopped?


Double star system, by the rules we've set up so far.

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