double planet (English, noun)
expansion: double planet (plural double planets)
Senses:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A planet with a moon large enough to be considered a planet, were the planet not there, having a substantial portion of the system's overall mass.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A pair of planemos in orbit around each other, where the barycenter of their orbits lies outside of both planemos, which in turn is in orbit about a star.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A pair of planemos in orbit around each other, where the barycenter of their orbits lies outside of both planemos.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A planemo with a moon large enough to be considered a planemo, having a substantial portion of the system's overall mass.
Forms:
form: double planets
tags: plural