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Posted by Christen on Tuesday, October 26, 2010 at 12:40pm.

Suppose that a binary star system consists of two stars of equal mass. They are observed to be separated by 330 million kilometers and take 3.0 Earth years to orbit about a point midway between them. What is the mass of each?

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