| ▲ | benabbott 4 hours ago | |
this would actually be a planet, based on my understanding of celestial bodies? moons are natural satellites orbiting planets. this "moon" is orbiting a brown dwarf. | ||
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| ▲ | eamag 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
First paragraph: > The star is being orbited by a brown dwarf, an object too massive to be a planet but too small to be a star. | ||
| ▲ | catigula 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
>According to the IAU working definition (from August 2018) an exoplanet can orbit a brown dwarf. It requires a mass below 13 MJ and a mass ratio of M/Mcentral<2/(25+√{621}), or roughly 1/25. This means that an object with a mass up to 3.2 MJ around a brown dwarf with a mass of 80 MJ is considered a planet. It also means that an object with a mass up to 0.52 MJ around a brown dwarf with a mass of 13 MJ is considered a planet | ||
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