"Peter Fairbrother" wrote in message
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Suppose you joined Mars and Venus together with a big elastic band?

Google back to my post here earlier this year regarding a "jumprope"
connecting Phobos and Deimos. Analogous mechanics here, but way more huge
in scale. An attachment of this scale would have to be elastic to some
degree, but to make the sun play jumprope with two planets, the elasticity
would have to be reasonably bounded.

Materials?

Jim McCauley