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Sure. If the smaller planet is very dense and the larger planet is not. Mass-wise no. But I don't think that's what you are after.

Check out this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycenter to get a feel for how planets of near the same sizevarious sizes (Mass) might interact.

Also... Who isn't comfortable with calling the Moon a moon? The center of massGallery section is well inside the radius of the Earth (from the wiki page the Sun and Jupiter are a binary, but the Earth and Moon are not)really nice.

Sure. If the smaller planet is very dense and the larger planet is not. Mass-wise no. But I don't think that's what you are after.

Check out this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycenter to get a feel for how planets of near the same size (Mass) might interact.

Also... Who isn't comfortable with calling the Moon a moon? The center of mass is well inside the radius of the Earth (from the wiki page the Sun and Jupiter are a binary, but the Earth and Moon are not).

Sure. If the smaller planet is very dense and the larger planet is not. Mass-wise no. But I don't think that's what you are after.

Check out this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycenter to get a feel for how planets of various sizes (Mass) might interact. The Gallery section is really nice.

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Sure. If the smaller planet is very dense and the larger planet is not. Mass-wise no. But I don't think that's what you are after.

Check out this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycenter to get a feel for how planets of near the same size (Mass) might interact.

Also... Who isn't comfortable with calling the Moon a moon? The center of mass is well inside the radius of the Earth (from the wiki page the Sun and Jupiter are a binary, but the Earth and Moon are not).