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If the Moon were replaced with some of our planets
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Posted on 10/29/2015 10:21:16 AM PDT by WhiskeyX

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To: WhiskeyX
You can not replace the moon with any of the other planets except Mercury or maybe Mars (Pluto doesn't count anymore as a planet)...

With Venus we be a twin planet.
With Uranus Neptune Jupiter or Saturn... Earth would be their moon

21 posted on 10/29/2015 12:18:52 PM PDT by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans Patr are in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: SunkenCiv

/mark


22 posted on 10/29/2015 12:41:05 PM PDT by KoRn (Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum.....)
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To: WhiskeyX
Movie "Melancholia."
23 posted on 10/29/2015 12:50:17 PM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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To: WhiskeyX

thanks for posting


24 posted on 10/29/2015 12:52:09 PM PDT by Nevadan
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To: WhiskeyX

But, but...where would Alice go?


25 posted on 10/29/2015 12:58:22 PM PDT by Bratch
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26 posted on 10/29/2015 1:01:06 PM PDT by dfwgator
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That’s what inspired my post.


27 posted on 10/29/2015 1:11:41 PM PDT by Bratch
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“But, but...where would Alice go?”

To de oder moon!


28 posted on 10/29/2015 1:21:26 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
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“I don’t think that anyone really says that the associated planets don’t orbit the star because the associated barycenter isn’t colocated with the star’s center of mass.”

When you are talking about a binary star system where the two stars are nearly equal in mass, the barycenter is going to be located in the middle of space between them and not within the mass of either, so it is hardly accurate to describe Star A as orbiting around Star B or vice versa. The reality is that they are indeed orbiting around their common barycenter in space. Likewise for twin planets of equal mass, they too will orbit around a common barycenter located well beyond any atmospheres they may have. While most of these natural satellites are typically going to be mismatched in mass to the point the barycenter will be located within one of the two masses, it is useful to remember they are really orbiting around the barycenter, which can influence many of the diurnal and nutation characteristics of the primary mass where the barycenter may be found.


29 posted on 10/29/2015 1:33:46 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
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Tis true, but I wasn’t referring to objects of equal mass as planets generally aren’t as massive as the star around which they orbit.


30 posted on 10/29/2015 1:49:47 PM PDT by Purdue77 (Ranting is sometimes good for the soul.)
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To: brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; steelyourfaith; Mmogamer; dayglored; ...
Extra to APoD.

31 posted on 10/29/2015 2:01:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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Whoops! Thanks KoRn. I have too many tabs open and I'm nodding off at the keyboard.

32 posted on 10/29/2015 2:02:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: WhiskeyX

BTTT


33 posted on 10/29/2015 2:26:35 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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"I have too many tabs open and I'm nodding off at the keyboard."

How many times have I warned you that Dilaudid and FR don't go well together. 'Bad' things can happen! lol

In my younger years, there WERE some occasions where I'd go back on FR to see what I'd said the night before LOL

34 posted on 10/29/2015 4:22:17 PM PDT by KoRn (Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum.....)
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Wow. Jupiter light would be very bright, giving us almost no darkness and Saturn would be spectacular in the night sky. I vote Saturn, the heck with the tides. :)).


35 posted on 10/29/2015 6:38:56 PM PDT by Conservative4Ever (ENOUGH!! Man the pitch forks and torches...let the revolution begin!!!)
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