David Buck <dav### [at] simberoncom> wrote:
>   It was for a science fiction story I was working on that takes place
> on a planet that orbits a star 20 lightyears away.  This is actually a
> binary planet where two approximately equal mass planets orbit each
> other (or around the center of mass of the two planets) and both orbit
> the star.  The two planets are tidally locked to each other.  I wanted
> to discover the dynamics of this world.

Out of curiosity: Would such a system actually be stable in reality?

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