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Old 15-08-2009, 12:08 AM
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No...frame dragging will have little to no effect. It's too small an effect, even with large bodies like a star. Only in very dense objects like neutron stars and black holes will it become appreciable. In this case, given the way the planet is orbiting, the tidal effects generated between the star and the planet will eventually brake the orbital motion of the planet and it'll spiral into the star. If there were an outer planet in some sort of orbital resonance with the inner one, except orbiting in a prograde motion, that would also cause tidal braking to the inner planet. There'd also be a good chance that the outer planet's orbit maybe adversely affected as well because of the same effect between both planets.
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