double planet

double planet
a) a planet with a moon large enough to be considered a planet, were the planet not there, having a substantial portion of the systems overall mass.
b) 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.

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