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?
What if something was just plopped gravitationally equidistant from two stars in a binary system?
If it was perfectly balanced, sure. Any slight imbalance would cause rapid destabilization.
Also the pure gravitational forces might just rip that thing apart.
So the stars would need to be tiny and the planet fairly massive? And how big an imbalance would cause destabilisation?