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Re:Wolf 1069B: Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a ... by marginalia_nu on Monday January 09, 2023 @08:22AM (#34309995)
> Mercury is literally the only body in the whole solar system in any sort of more complicated "lock". So, no, it really is about word games.

How would you even begin to demonstrate this is true? There are so many bodies in the solar system, and we're still fairly frequently discovering new minor planet moon-systems..

Re:Wolf 1069B: Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a ... by moloch-hai on Monday January 09, 2023 @09:31AM (#34310706)
Find another. It would not change anything.
Re:Wolf 1069B: Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a ... by marginalia_nu on Monday January 09, 2023 @09:39AM (#34310785)
Dunno man. It's very hard to draw statistical inferences based on a solar stellar system. It would even require significant motivation to argue that the measurements are independent.
Re:Wolf 1069B: Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a ... by moloch-hai on Monday January 09, 2023 @09:46AM (#34310877)
The topic here is the word game defrost and now you promote. Does "tidal lock", absent further detail, imply 1:1? Yes.
Re:Wolf 1069B: Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a ... by marginalia_nu on Monday January 09, 2023 @10:03AM (#34311069)
The meaning of a word is conventional.
Re:Wolf 1069B: Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a ... by moloch-hai on Monday January 09, 2023 @10:10AM (#34311155)
And of exactly zero interest.

The original topic, so cleverly but pointlessly derailed, was the viability of planets we can just barely detect in extremely close orbit around a dim star, in 1:1 tidal lock, with permanently hot and a cold sides, and, likely, no magnetic field. That merited discussion.