Re: A newcomer here

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James A. Donald
> >So you might well have three earthlike bodies, all
> >orbiting the sun at the same distance - one in orbit
> >around the jovian, one in each trojan point.

Wilson Heydt
> That would have 2 "Earth-like" bodies, unless you
> consider a Jovain to be "Earth-like".

Two earthlike trojans, one or more earthlike moons.

If you are content with a mere two earthlike planets
orbiting their sun at a much the same distance, you
don't need a jovian, you can have the two in chaser
orbits.


> You're thinking of the two 'ring shepard' moons around
> Saturn.

That is an example of chaser orbits.

> Would Earth-mass planets doing that stay outside the
> Roche limit?

Chaser orbits work at any distance.

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