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Why not?


Because then it would be a double planet.


It depends on how big the "main" planet is, I guess. But I think we are running into definitional issues here, and it gets technical very fast. First, IAU does not recognize the term "double planet". Second, a body which is large enough to reach hydrostatic equilibrium (i.e. a sphere) but has not yet cleared its orbit is technically not a planet. So I don't know where this leaves us. A Jupiter-sized planet with an Earth-sized satellite would be such a huge mass and volume difference (an even bigger difference than the Earth and Moon) that it seems to odd to term that a "double planet".


TFA said the planets were rocky and 1.1g.




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