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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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