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Dartz

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Binary Red Dwarves and Tidal Locking.
« on: September 06, 2012, 11:41:04 PM »
Upon playing with the sandbox I thought of this. Would a planet orbiting two red dwarf stars still be tidally locked?

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Re: Binary Red Dwarves and Tidal Locking.
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2012, 12:59:49 AM »
possibly, either if the planet was orbiting around one of the stars, or orbiting at a large distance from the two stars. You can test by exploding an object (with velocity set to very low, so that the pieces do not fly apart), and then the resulting objects will resemble a non-rigid body.