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PM_ME_A_FUTURE t1_j4yovry wrote

Reply to comment by NotStaggy in Are Two Tidally Locked Earth in One Solar System Possible? by Thirdy-DOg

Even if they were in a perfectly perpendicular orbit around each other compared to their orbit around the star?

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NotStaggy t1_j4ypick wrote

Huh maybe, gota stop commenting without my glasses. Tidal locking between a pair of co-orbiting astronomical bodies occurs when one of the objects reaches a state where there is no longer any net change in its rotation rate over the course of a complete orbit. I'm probably wrong as idk wtf I thought tidal lock ment.

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PM_ME_A_FUTURE t1_j4yppmn wrote

I mean planets can definitely be tidally locked to a star, that's probably what you were thinking of. We have one (or two?) Of those in our solar system

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