See title. This is a shower thought that popped into me while slowly waking up. I’m thinking, what if due to e.g. gravitational shenanigans, the pull on a planet is such that a planet stands relatively motionless in a fixed position towards its star?

Is that possible or am I forgetting some astronomy basics?

  • BiggestPiggest@lemmy.world
    cake
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    5 months ago

    If r was zero, or m was zero it could work.

    So it’s either at the body’s core or it has no mass.