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| Nov 10, 2021 at 15:02 | history | edited | HDE 226868♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 9, 2021 at 23:04 | comment | added | HDE 226868♦ | @JohnO I honestly don't know. It's an interesting question. You're right - they'd be below the hydrogen-fusing limit (or even the deuterium-burning limit), so I wouldn't be overly worried, but something would certainly happen. | |
| Nov 9, 2021 at 23:02 | comment | added | HDE 226868♦ | @M.A.Golding My phrasing was poor, and I'll make an edit, but I was referring to tidal deceleration, producing the opposite effect to tidal acceleration, given that the orbital period could be reasonably short. | |
| Nov 9, 2021 at 22:00 | comment | added | John O | @M.A.Golding This isn't my area of expertise. HDE suggested that they might. Unless I misread. | |
| Nov 9, 2021 at 21:51 | comment | added | M. A. Golding | @John O why do you think that tidal forces will cause two gas giants to merge instead of moving farther away? | |
| Nov 9, 2021 at 20:58 | comment | added | John O | What happens when two slightly-larger-than-Jupiter gas giants merge due to tidal forces? My intuition says that they're still far too small to start fusing and become some sort of dwarf star, but that has to be anything but a gentle process. Is it only catastrophic at the very end, or do these things get toasty and fry the life-bearing moon? | |
| Nov 9, 2021 at 19:54 | history | answered | HDE 226868♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |