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Old 17-July-2009, 04:21 PM
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I can imagine a situation where two equally sized impactors capture each other and become a double planet; this would be the same as the event that created the Moon, except that both planets would be the same size. However I think that even in a case like that one of the planets would end up bigger than the other one; perhaps much bigger.
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